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I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Guides and Directories Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Guides and Directories
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Guides and Directories "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Guides and Directories
"Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Guides and Directories A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Guides and Directories
"Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Guides and Directories Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Guides and Directories
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Guides and Directories 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 "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Guides and Directories
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Guides and Directories
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Guides and Directories
"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) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Guides and Directories Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Guides and Directories
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Guides and Directories "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Guides and Directories
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Guides and Directories The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Guides and Directories
