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"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Over Wallop The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Over Wallop
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) 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 People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Over Wallop "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Over Wallop
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Over Wallop One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Over Wallop
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Over Wallop "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Over Wallop
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Over Wallop I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. 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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"I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Over Wallop Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Over Wallop
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Over Wallop "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Over Wallop
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Over Wallop Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Over Wallop
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 Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Over Wallop I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Over Wallop
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Over Wallop "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Over Wallop
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 Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "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) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Over Wallop Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Over Wallop
