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When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous 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 History 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 Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki History
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev History Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland History
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) 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.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer History Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST History
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain History Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th History
"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry History "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) History
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) History "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin History
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) History It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes History
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot History "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm History
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "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) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous History A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) History
"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter History Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos History
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and History Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. History
