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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) East Cowton If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt East Cowton
"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 only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett East Cowton Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) East Cowton
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. East Cowton Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh East Cowton
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show East Cowton "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac East Cowton
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright East Cowton I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright East Cowton
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz East Cowton A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 East Cowton
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer East Cowton "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) East Cowton
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) East Cowton The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. East Cowton
"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley East Cowton Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death East Cowton
He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. 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 East Cowton Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire 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 East Cowton
"See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. East Cowton Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi East Cowton
