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Andre Gide Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Blackburn 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.
? Work He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France I have read your book and much like it.
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-- Kin Hubbard Blackburn I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
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Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
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Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Blackburn Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
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If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Blackburn "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
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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 Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
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well be another profound truth.
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Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
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money from it.
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-- Byrd Baggett Blackburn The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Blackburn
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Blackburn The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Blackburn
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Blackburn Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Blackburn
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Blackburn "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz 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 Blackburn
