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"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Deepdale 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 You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Deepdale
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Deepdale I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Deepdale
"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 I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Deepdale If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Deepdale
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Deepdale The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Spinster: A bachelor's wife. The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Deepdale
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Deepdale "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Deepdale
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Deepdale I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Deepdale
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Deepdale "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Deepdale
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Deepdale Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Deepdale
"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 Marriage is a rest period between romances. This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Deepdale I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Deepdale
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Deepdale When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Deepdale
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Deepdale I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Deepdale
