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The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Aldham And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Aldham
It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Aldham Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Aldham
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Aldham "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) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Aldham
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Aldham Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. 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 To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Aldham
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Spinster: A bachelor's wife. I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Aldham "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Aldham
The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Aldham I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur 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 Aldham
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Aldham A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Aldham
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Aldham We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Aldham
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Aldham Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Aldham
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Aldham Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Aldham
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Aldham A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Aldham
