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The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Lastingham "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Lastingham
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Lastingham In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Lastingham
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 The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Lastingham "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Lastingham
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Lastingham Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lastingham
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 "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Lastingham "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Lastingham
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Lastingham blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Lastingham
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Lastingham "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Lastingham
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Lastingham You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Lastingham
A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Lastingham "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Lastingham
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 To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Lastingham To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Lastingham
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur 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 It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Lastingham Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Lastingham
