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-- Russell Baker Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Health I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Health
"That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Health "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Health
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Health Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Health
Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Health "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Health
"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Health Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Health
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Health Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "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 For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Health
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Health "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Health
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Health Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Health
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Health I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Health
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Health In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Health
"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Health "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Health
