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Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Motoring 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 In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Motoring
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Motoring He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Motoring
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Motoring "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Motoring
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Motoring Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Motoring
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Motoring Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Motoring
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) 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 Motoring May you never leave your marriage alive. The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Motoring
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Motoring Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Motoring
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "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) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Motoring I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Motoring
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Motoring It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Motoring
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Motoring Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Motoring
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Motoring Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Motoring
