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Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Great Houghton Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Spinster: A bachelor's wife. To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Great Houghton
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Great Houghton Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Great Houghton
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Great Houghton 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 Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Great Houghton
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 I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Great Houghton I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Great Houghton
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Great Houghton "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Great Houghton
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Great Houghton Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 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 What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Great Houghton
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Great Houghton Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Great Houghton
"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Great Houghton "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Great Houghton
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Great Houghton The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Great Houghton
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Great Houghton >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 "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Great Houghton
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt >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 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 Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Great Houghton Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Great Houghton
