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He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll 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 Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Music "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Music
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Music "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Music
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Music "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Music
"My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Music To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Music
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Music Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Music
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Music "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Music
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Music Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Music
Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Music Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso 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 Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Music
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson May you never leave your marriage alive. Music And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Music
Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Music In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
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A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Music They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Music
