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The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Kings Norton Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Kings Norton
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "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 Kings Norton 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 All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Kings Norton
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Kings Norton A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Kings Norton
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Kings Norton In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Kings Norton
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Kings Norton "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Kings Norton
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "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) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Kings Norton Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Kings Norton
In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller What's new? Most of my wife. Kings Norton If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Kings Norton
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Kings Norton "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa 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
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If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Kings Norton He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Kings Norton
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Kings Norton Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Kings Norton
This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Kings Norton "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "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) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Kings Norton
