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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Cropston Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Cropston
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine 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 Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch 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 Cropston Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) 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 Cropston
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Cropston "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Cropston
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Cropston Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Cropston
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 "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Cropston When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Cropston
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Cropston 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 variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cropston
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Cropston If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Cropston
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Cropston Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Cropston
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Cropston "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Cropston
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Cropston Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Cropston
"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 I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone 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. Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Cropston Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Cropston
