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The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Arts and Entertainment In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! 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 "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Arts and Entertainment
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Arts and Entertainment "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Arts and Entertainment
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Arts and Entertainment Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Arts and Entertainment
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Arts and Entertainment Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
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All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Arts and Entertainment Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Arts and Entertainment "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Arts and Entertainment "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 The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Arts and Entertainment
blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Arts and Entertainment "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Arts and Entertainment
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Arts and Entertainment There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Arts and Entertainment
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Arts and Entertainment Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Arts and Entertainment
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Arts and Entertainment What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Arts and Entertainment
