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Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Roads Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford 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 "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Roads
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Roads Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Roads
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Roads Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Roads
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Roads There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Roads
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "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) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Roads The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Roads
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
de You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Roads "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Roads
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Roads What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Roads
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Roads He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Roads
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Roads blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Roads
You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Roads Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Roads
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Roads 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 The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Roads
