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In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous I And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual I
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd I Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
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The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous I "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson I
He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf I Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White 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 "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) I
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) I Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey I
"Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz I A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) 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 Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 I
May you never leave your marriage alive. Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin I In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara I
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell I "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. I
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") I Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly I
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker 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 I It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) I
