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"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) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Lancaster City Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Lancaster City
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Lancaster City "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Lancaster City
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Lancaster City "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Lancaster City
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Lancaster City "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Lancaster City
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Lancaster City If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lancaster City
Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "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) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Lancaster City "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Lancaster City
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Lancaster City It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H 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 Lancaster City
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Lancaster City That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Lancaster City
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Lancaster City He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Lancaster City
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Lancaster City "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Lancaster City
Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "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 Lancaster City "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Lancaster City
