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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Aintree 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 Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Aintree
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Aintree The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Aintree
Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Aintree "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w 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 Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Aintree
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "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 there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Aintree My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Aintree
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Aintree "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Aintree
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Aintree May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Aintree
If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "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) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Aintree Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Aintree
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Aintree I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Aintree
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Aintree 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 Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Aintree
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Aintree We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Aintree
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Aintree Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Aintree
