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"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Oakley "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Oakley
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Oakley Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Oakley
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale 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 A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Oakley "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "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) Oakley
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West 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. Oakley "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Oakley
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 I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Oakley If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Oakley
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach 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 I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Oakley "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Oakley
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 Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Oakley In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Oakley
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. 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 Oakley Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Oakley
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "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) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Oakley Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Oakley
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Anyway, 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,
ign "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Oakley A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Oakley
"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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.
-- Crow "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Oakley When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
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