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"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "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) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Property The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Property
In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin 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 If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Property "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) 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 Property
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Property "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Property
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Property blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Property
"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) 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 I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Property The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Property
My other wife is beautiful. Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Property "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Property
Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) 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 When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Property 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 When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Property
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Property I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Property
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Property "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Property
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Property Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Property
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James 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 Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Property I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Property
