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Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Harpenden "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner 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. Harpenden
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 I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Harpenden Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Harpenden
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Harpenden "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) 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 "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Harpenden
"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Harpenden "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
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Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Harpenden The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Harpenden
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Harpenden Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Harpenden
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Harpenden "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel 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
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"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Harpenden I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Harpenden
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Harpenden They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Harpenden
Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Harpenden I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Harpenden
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Harpenden You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Harpenden
