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If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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 Health Man and wife make one fool. "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Health
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Health I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Health
"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Health "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Health
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Health If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Health
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Health Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Health
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Health Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Health
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Health "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "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." Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Health
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Health People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Health
It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Health Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Health
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues 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 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 The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Health If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Health
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Health No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese 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 Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Health
