I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Religion "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Religion
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Religion A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Religion
"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) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Religion Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan 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 We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Religion
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Religion No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Religion
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Religion Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Religion
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Religion All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Religion
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Religion "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Religion
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Religion There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Religion
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Religion It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Religion
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Religion Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Religion
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. 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 If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Religion "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. 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
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