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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman 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) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Debden You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Debden
"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 blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Debden Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Debden
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Debden "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Debden
"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Debden Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Debden
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Debden "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Debden
People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Debden "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Debden
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Debden I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown 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. Debden
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Debden Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Debden
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Debden The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Debden
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Debden At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Debden
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Debden Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Debden
