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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Gateshead The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Gateshead
"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) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Gateshead Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Gateshead
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Gateshead MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
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-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Gateshead
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) 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. "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
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-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Gateshead "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
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-- Robert Graves Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
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--John Simon Gateshead
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 It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Gateshead It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Gateshead
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "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) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Gateshead 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 "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
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-- H. L. Mencken Gateshead
Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Gateshead Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Gateshead
I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Gateshead Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Gateshead
It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Gateshead "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Gateshead
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
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-- Tom Lehrer If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom 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 Gateshead
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Gateshead "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
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