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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 We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Boston "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Boston
"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 "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Boston I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Boston
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Boston Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Boston
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Boston Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Boston
"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Boston "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Boston
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Boston "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "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) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Boston
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling 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 "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Boston It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Boston
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Boston "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Boston
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Boston If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The less their ability, the more their conceit.
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"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Boston "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Boston
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Boston Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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,
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