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Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Broughton Astley "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Broughton Astley
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Broughton Astley I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Broughton Astley
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Broughton Astley Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Broughton Astley
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Broughton Astley 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 Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Broughton Astley
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- 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) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Broughton Astley Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Broughton Astley
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Broughton Astley "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Broughton Astley
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "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) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Broughton Astley "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Broughton Astley
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 "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Broughton Astley then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Broughton Astley
"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Broughton Astley The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Broughton Astley
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Broughton Astley Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Broughton Astley
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Broughton Astley A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Broughton Astley
