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Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Dudley Metropolitan Borough "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Dudley Metropolitan Borough
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Dudley Metropolitan Borough Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Dudley Metropolitan Borough
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Dudley Metropolitan Borough In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Dudley Metropolitan Borough
Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Dudley Metropolitan Borough Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Dudley Metropolitan Borough
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Dudley Metropolitan Borough "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson 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 Dudley Metropolitan Borough
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Dudley Metropolitan Borough I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Dudley Metropolitan Borough
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Dudley Metropolitan Borough No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Dudley Metropolitan Borough
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Dudley Metropolitan Borough It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Dudley Metropolitan Borough
"People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Dudley Metropolitan Borough Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Dudley Metropolitan Borough
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Dudley Metropolitan Borough "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Dudley Metropolitan Borough
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Dudley Metropolitan Borough Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J My other wife is beautiful. Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Dudley Metropolitan Borough
