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"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Grateley I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Grateley
"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Grateley In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Grateley
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Grateley "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 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 Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Grateley
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Grateley The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Grateley
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Grateley People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Grateley
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Grateley "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Grateley
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Grateley "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Grateley
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 "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Grateley A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Grateley
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Grateley Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Grateley
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 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 "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Grateley Man and wife make one fool. There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Grateley
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Grateley And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Grateley
