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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Edgworth "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Edgworth
If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Edgworth "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Edgworth
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Edgworth We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Edgworth
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Edgworth If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Edgworth
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Edgworth "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Edgworth
"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Edgworth "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Edgworth
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Edgworth Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Edgworth
"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Edgworth We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Edgworth
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Edgworth "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Edgworth
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Edgworth For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Edgworth
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Edgworth I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Edgworth
