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-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Arts and Entertainment When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
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The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
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-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
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-- Abraham Lincoln A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
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"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
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-- Anon. To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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-- Helen Keller "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) Arts and Entertainment
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
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- Plato If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
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-- Anonymous Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
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-- Robert Frost He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Arts and Entertainment
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
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-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
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-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
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- Sir Winston Churchill The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
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retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
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Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
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-- James Thurber The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
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-- Yiddish Proverb The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Arts and Entertainment
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
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-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Arts and Entertainment "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
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-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Arts and Entertainment "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
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"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
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-- Bette-Jane Raphael "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
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-- H. Jackson Brown The church is the great lost and found department.
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