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Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Aldington "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Aldington A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison 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
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Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Aldington "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
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Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Aldington Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
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soiled or torn? We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
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I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Aldington Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
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With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Aldington I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
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"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Aldington Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
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"The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "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) Aldington You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Aldington
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Aldington "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
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The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Aldington There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
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"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Aldington She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Aldington
