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Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Sapcote "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Sapcote
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple 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 Sapcote Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Sapcote
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Sapcote Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Sapcote
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth 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 The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Sapcote It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Sapcote
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Sapcote "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Sapcote
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Sapcote 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 The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Sapcote
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Sapcote It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Sapcote
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin 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 Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Sapcote Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Sapcote
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Sapcote I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Sapcote
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Sapcote ... 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
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Sapcote
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Sapcote These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Sapcote
