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That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Health Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Health
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Health The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Health
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Health "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Health
Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Health Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Health
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "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 purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "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) Health Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Health
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Health Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Health
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Health "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Health
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Health The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Health
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Health "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Health
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Health It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
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couldn't cha "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Health
