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Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football. -- Fran Lebowitz Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development. -- Russell Baker Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. -- Libbie Fudim Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty. -- Adair Lara I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces. -- Mark Twain Dudley blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow. -- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Dudley Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. -- Charles Caleb Colton The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Victor Borge Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Dudley "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) The only reward of virtue is virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls. -- Lenny Bruce Dudley We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. -- John Webster If we don't change the direction we are going, We are likely to end up where we are heading. -- Chinese saying Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe- inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect i "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Dudley "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 Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Anaïs Nin The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. -- Paula Poundstone Dudley Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. -- Samuel Butler Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. - Jean-Paul Sartre Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. -- Buddha Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. -- Emily Dickinson Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. -- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Dudley Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. -- Oscar Wilde, dying words Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy Dudley If you can't convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S. Truman The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. -- Gloria Leonard Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. -- Anonymous "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Dudley What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -- Orison Swett Marden I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. -- Benjamin Franklin Dudley Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. -- Oscar W Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "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) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Dudley "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs. -- Barbara Howar "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Dudley "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) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. -- Doug MacLeod Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. -- John Kenneth Galbraith Dudley "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life. -- Abbie M. Dale Dudley "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Art and science have their meeting point in method. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Dudley We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett Dudley Victory belongs to the most persevering. -- Napoleon Bonaparte The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. -- Jerry Olson "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Dudley Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.... -- Carl Zwanzig Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Dudley Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox. -- Woody Allen The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord Rutherford Dudley "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. -- WARREN BEATTY After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley Dudley In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. -- Michael Winner Dudley Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. A friend is a gift you give yourself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. -- Michel de Montaigne Dudley
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