I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero What's new? Most of my wife. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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-- Philip K. Dick The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Communications Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
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-- Jerry Seinfeld Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
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-- Lord Rutherford Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
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-- John Cage "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Communications "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Communications
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
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Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
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-- Robert Benchley The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
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-- Clifton Fadiman Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
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-- Mark Twain The average person thinks he isn't.
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A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
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-- George Bird Evans Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Communications At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
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-- Maurice Maeterlink 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
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-- Anatole France Communications
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
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-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Communications Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
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The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Communications Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Communications
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Communications "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Communications
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Communications "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 Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Communications
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Communications The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
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