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- Robert Frost Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
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-- W. Somerset Maugham "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
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-- Bertrand Russell Railways To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
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The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
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-- John Weitz, American Designer Railways "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
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-- Anonymous Railways
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-- George Bernard Shaw There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
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-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Railways
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-- H. L. Mencken Railways Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
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-- H. Jackson Brown "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Railways
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
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-- Mark Twain Railways Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
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-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Railways
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
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-- George Bernard Shaw Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Railways The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
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-- G. K. Chesterton Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Railways
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Railways Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
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-- Helen Keller Railways
That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Railways
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Railways I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
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- Bill Hirst Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Railways
"For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire 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 Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Railways I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
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work and the I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Railways
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash 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 To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Railways "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Railways
