"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Arts and Entertainment Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Arts and Entertainment
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Arts and Entertainment When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Arts and Entertainment
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Arts and Entertainment
"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) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Arts and Entertainment The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu 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 Arts and Entertainment
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Arts and Entertainment "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) 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 Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Arts and Entertainment
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Arts and Entertainment "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Arts and Entertainment
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Arts and Entertainment
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Arts and Entertainment The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Arts and Entertainment Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Arts and Entertainment
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "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." Arts and Entertainment Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Arts and Entertainment The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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