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"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Manuden Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Manuden
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Manuden Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Manuden
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Manuden Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Manuden
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Manuden Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Manuden
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Manuden "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Manuden
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "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." We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Manuden In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Manuden
Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Manuden The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Manuden
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper 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 Manuden "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "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) Manuden
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Manuden If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Manuden What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Manuden
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Manuden Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Manuden
