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If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Basildon The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Basildon
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Basildon The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Basildon
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Basildon "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Basildon
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Basildon Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Basildon
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Basildon I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Basildon
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Basildon A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Basildon
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Basildon 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 "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Basildon
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Basildon I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Basildon
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, "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) 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) Basildon blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Basildon
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Basildon Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Basildon
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) 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 Basildon There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Basildon
