I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Training "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein 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 Training
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Training I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Training
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Training "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Training
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Training "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Training
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-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Training "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Training
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Training Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous 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 Training
2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Training In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Training
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Training If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Training
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Training Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Training
"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Training 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 "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Training
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Training The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Training
