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The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Markyate I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Markyate
If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Markyate Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Markyate
The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Markyate This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Markyate
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Markyate "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Markyate
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Markyate In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Markyate
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Markyate 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. I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Markyate
We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone 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 Markyate The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Markyate
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Markyate The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Markyate
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Markyate "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Markyate
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Markyate The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Markyate
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "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) Markyate I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Markyate
