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Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Althorne Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Althorne
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Althorne What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Althorne
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Althorne "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Althorne
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Althorne Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Althorne
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Althorne "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "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 Althorne
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Althorne An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Althorne
"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "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) Althorne And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Althorne
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Althorne "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) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Althorne
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Althorne In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Althorne
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Althorne "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Althorne
"What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Althorne I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Althorne
