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of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Property "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) If we don't change the direction we are going,
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-- Chinese saying My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Property
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Property Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Property
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Property They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Property
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Property If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Property
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Property I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Property
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Property The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Property
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 And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Property For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Property
Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Property If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Property
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Property "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Property
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Property I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Property
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Property A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Property
