Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Glasson Dock This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Glasson Dock
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Glasson Dock If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Glasson Dock
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
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-- Ralph Mars A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Glasson Dock "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Glasson Dock
"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
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-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Glasson Dock "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
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something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Glasson Dock
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Glasson Dock "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
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-- Flannery O'Connor "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Glasson Dock
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
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-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
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-- Oscar Wilde Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Glasson Dock
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
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- Moses Hadas in a review Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
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-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Glasson Dock "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
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-- Lyster Glasson Dock
blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
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-- George Santayana Glasson Dock
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
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-- Benjamin Franklin Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Glasson Dock
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
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-- Anonymous The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
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-- Mark Twain The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
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-- Howard Aiken The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
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both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Glasson Dock 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 "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
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