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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Portchester I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Portchester
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Portchester "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Portchester
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Portchester blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Portchester
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "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) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Portchester "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Portchester God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Portchester
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) 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 The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Portchester "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Portchester
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Portchester "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Portchester
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Portchester "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Portchester
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Portchester In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
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-- Tom Lehrer Portchester
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Portchester The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Portchester
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Portchester The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Portchester
