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I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Sharnford Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Sharnford
"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Sharnford Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Sharnford
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Sharnford Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 >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 No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Sharnford
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "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." blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire 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 Sharnford Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Sharnford
"The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Sharnford To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Sharnford
Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "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) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Sharnford You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Sharnford
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Sharnford To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Sharnford
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Man and wife make one fool. Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Sharnford The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Sharnford
"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) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Sharnford Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine 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 Sharnford
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. 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 No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Sharnford Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Sharnford
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Sharnford If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Sharnford
