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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
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-- Proverbs 23:7 Arts and Entertainment
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Arts and Entertainment The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
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-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Arts and Entertainment I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Arts and Entertainment
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
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-- N. D. Stice Arts and Entertainment When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Arts and Entertainment
"If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Arts and Entertainment 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
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- Jean-Paul Sartre Arts and Entertainment
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "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) Arts and Entertainment Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Arts and Entertainment
Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain 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. blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Arts and Entertainment No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Arts and Entertainment
"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Arts and Entertainment For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Arts and Entertainment
