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Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford History 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 Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken History
Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron History "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) History
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm History Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "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) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz History
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 gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous History "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 History
"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge History Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius History
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman History If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "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 We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius History
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland History "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain History
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein 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. We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa History Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey History
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "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 History "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) History
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis History Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou History
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom History There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci History
