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I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker History Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) History
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "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) What's new? Most of my wife. Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal History Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper History
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) History "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly History
"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the History Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l History
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. History I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. History
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein History Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong History
blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. History Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni History
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde History "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown History
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) History "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe History
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) History There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) History
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa History "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "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 History
