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Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Outdoor If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "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) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Outdoor
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Outdoor "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 He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Outdoor
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Outdoor We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Outdoor
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Outdoor Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Outdoor
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Outdoor "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Outdoor
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Outdoor In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Outdoor
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "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 This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Outdoor Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Outdoor
In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Outdoor Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Outdoor
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Outdoor Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Outdoor
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Outdoor "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 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. Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Outdoor
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Outdoor Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Outdoor
