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The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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.) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Gayle Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Gayle
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) 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. Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Gayle 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 Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Gayle
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Gayle "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Gayle
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Gayle If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Gayle
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Gayle "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Gayle
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Gayle A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous My other wife is beautiful. Gayle
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Gayle A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Gayle
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Gayle I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Gayle
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Gayle Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Gayle
"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Gayle "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Gayle
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "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 The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Gayle The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Gayle
