blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
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-- Elayne Boosler A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Clacton-on-Sea A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
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-- H.L. Mencken Clacton-on-Sea
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "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 a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Clacton-on-Sea "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, Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
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-- Rainer Maria Ril Clacton-on-Sea
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
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-- S. T. Coleridge There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
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-- Modern Maturity Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Clacton-on-Sea You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
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-- Ellen DeGeneres "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
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-- Sydney Smith Clacton-on-Sea
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
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shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Clacton-on-Sea "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
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-- Roger Simon Clacton-on-Sea
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot 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. "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Clacton-on-Sea "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 Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Clacton-on-Sea
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
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-- Bill Parcels, New Engla He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Clacton-on-Sea Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Clacton-on-Sea
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Clacton-on-Sea "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
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>From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
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-- General Douglas MacArthur "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw The less their ability, the more their conceit.
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-- Ernest Dimnet If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Clacton-on-Sea
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Clacton-on-Sea "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Clacton-on-Sea
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Clacton-on-Sea The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Clacton-on-Sea
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
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-- G. K. Chesterton Clacton-on-Sea "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
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