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Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Byfield Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Byfield
My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Byfield And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Byfield
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre 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 Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Byfield "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Byfield
"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) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Byfield "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Byfield
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Byfield Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams 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, Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Byfield
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Byfield Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Byfield
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Byfield If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Byfield Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Byfield
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Byfield If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Byfield
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Byfield This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Byfield Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor 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 The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Byfield
