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"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) O 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) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain O
When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba O There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton O
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill O A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor O
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall O "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g O
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last O "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) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 O
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler 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 If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton O If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer O
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain O If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) O
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli O Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner O
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic O Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon O
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) 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 "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain O The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein O
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke O "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Marriage is a rest period between romances. O
