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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Home and Garden In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Home and Garden
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Home and Garden "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 "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Home and Garden
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Home and Garden "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Home and Garden
>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Home and Garden Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Home and Garden
I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "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 Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Home and Garden The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Home and Garden
Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Home and Garden No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Home and Garden
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Home and Garden A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Home and Garden
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 For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Home and Garden Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
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"Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Home and Garden With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Home and Garden
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Home and Garden Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Home and Garden
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Home and Garden Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Home and Garden
