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And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Bramber Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Bramber
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bramber Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Bramber
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "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) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human 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 Bramber All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "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 Bramber
Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Bramber If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Bramber
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Bramber It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Bramber
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Bramber "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Bramber
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 Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Bramber "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Bramber
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Bramber Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Bramber
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Bramber "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Bramber
Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Bramber "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Bramber
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Bramber I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bramber
