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-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Brookhouse Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Brookhouse
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Brookhouse Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Brookhouse
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Brookhouse I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Brookhouse
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Brookhouse If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
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Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Brookhouse Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Brookhouse
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan 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 Brookhouse How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Brookhouse
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Brookhouse A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Brookhouse
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Brookhouse Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "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 "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Brookhouse
"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Brookhouse "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Brookhouse
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Brookhouse Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Brookhouse
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Brookhouse "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Brookhouse
