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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Chislet "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Chislet
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Chislet I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Chislet
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Chislet Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Chislet
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Chislet "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Chislet
Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Chislet Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Chislet
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Chislet "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Chislet
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Chislet CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Chislet
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Chislet "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Chislet
"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) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Chislet "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Chislet
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. 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 By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Chislet In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Chislet
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Chislet "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Chislet
