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You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Religion "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Religion
Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Religion Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Religion
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Religion Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Religion
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Religion Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Religion
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Religion You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Religion
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Religion We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Religion
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Religion There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Religion
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Religion I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Religion
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Religion "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Religion
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Religion A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Religion
Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Religion Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Religion
