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It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett All Cannings "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton All Cannings
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry All Cannings We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch All Cannings
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson All Cannings If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson All Cannings
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire All Cannings then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice All Cannings
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde All Cannings If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca All Cannings
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last All Cannings No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams 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 All Cannings
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington All Cannings "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery All Cannings
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) All Cannings A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan All Cannings
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) All Cannings >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde All Cannings
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) 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 Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull All Cannings Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George All Cannings
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle 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 All Cannings "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All All Cannings
