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Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Sunderland Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Sunderland
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Sunderland I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Sunderland
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 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 "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) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Sunderland God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Sunderland
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Sunderland "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Sunderland
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Sunderland "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Sunderland
Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Sunderland Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Sunderland
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Sunderland The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Sunderland
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "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, Sunderland If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Sunderland
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Sunderland I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Sunderland
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Sunderland Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sunderland
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Sunderland I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Sunderland
