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Spinster: A bachelor's wife. We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Music Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Music
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Music There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Music
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Music To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Music
He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "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 You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Music Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Music
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge 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 Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Music Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Music
We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Music Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Music
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Music "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 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 Music
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Music Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Music
It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Music Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Music
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Music "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Music
blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Music To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Music
