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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler 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 Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Religion A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Religion
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Religion Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Religion
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Religion We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Religion
You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Religion Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Religion
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "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 If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Religion blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Religion
To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Religion We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Religion
Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Religion "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Religion
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous 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 A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Religion
"I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Religion If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Religion
"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Religion The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Religion
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Religion "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Religion