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Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Arts and Entertainment To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Arts and Entertainment Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
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 Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Arts and Entertainment The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Arts and Entertainment
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Arts and Entertainment The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Arts and Entertainment
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Arts and Entertainment "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Arts and Entertainment
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. 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. Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Arts and Entertainment Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Arts and Entertainment "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Arts and Entertainment
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Arts and Entertainment A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Arts and Entertainment
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Arts and Entertainment
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Arts and Entertainment In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Arts and Entertainment
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford 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 "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Arts and Entertainment Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Arts and Entertainment
