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"God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Transport Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Transport
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Transport If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Transport
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 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 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 Transport The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Transport
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Transport Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Transport
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Transport "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Transport
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Transport We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Transport
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Transport Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Transport
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Transport "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
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Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Transport Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Transport
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Transport Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Transport
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Transport "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Transport
