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If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Property "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Property
"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott My other wife is beautiful. Property blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Property
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Property blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "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) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Property
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Property "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Property
You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "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) Property It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Property
He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Property The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Property
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Property What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Property
then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Property Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Property
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Property You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Property
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Property Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Property
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Property "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Property
