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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Essex Man and wife make one fool. There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
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Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Essex That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Essex
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Essex "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Essex
blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Essex He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Essex
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Essex Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Essex
blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Essex Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Essex
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Essex The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Essex
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Essex "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Essex
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Essex "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Essex
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Essex The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Essex
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Essex Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Essex