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What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "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 Property In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Property
He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Property Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Property
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Property "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Property
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Property Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Property
2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Property "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Property
"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "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 Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Property Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Property
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Property "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Property
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. 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 gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Property The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Property
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Property If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Property
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Property The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Property
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Property "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Property
