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Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Religion We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Religion
It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Religion blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Religion
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Religion Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Religion
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Religion Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Religion
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Religion Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "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) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Religion
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Religion The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Religion
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Religion "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) 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 "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Religion
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Religion "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Religion
How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Religion When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Religion
"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 "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Religion You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Religion
"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "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) Religion I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Religion
