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Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Emergency Services "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Emergency Services
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Emergency Services Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Emergency Services
"We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Emergency Services "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Emergency Services
May you never leave your marriage alive. It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Emergency Services The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Emergency Services
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Emergency Services "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Emergency Services
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Emergency Services Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board 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 The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Emergency Services
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Emergency Services Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Emergency Services
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Emergency Services Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Emergency Services
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Emergency Services Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Emergency Services
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Emergency Services The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Emergency Services
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Emergency Services As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Emergency Services
