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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 "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Transport Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Transport
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
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rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Transport A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Transport
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Transport "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Transport
I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Transport
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Health food makes me sick.
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"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Transport We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Transport
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
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of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Transport
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-- Samuel Paterson I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
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comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Transport I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Transport
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner 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? blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Transport Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "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 Transport
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Transport "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Transport
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Transport 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 If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
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