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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Groby America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Groby
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Groby The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Groby
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Groby If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley 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 Groby
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Groby It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Groby
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Groby "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Groby
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Groby "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Groby
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "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 When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Groby The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Groby
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Groby And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Groby
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Groby "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Groby
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Groby A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Groby
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert 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 blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Groby "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Groby
