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History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Alzheimer's Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Alzheimer's
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Alzheimer's 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 Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Alzheimer's
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 My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Alzheimer's "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Alzheimer's
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Alzheimer's 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 The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Alzheimer's
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Alzheimer's Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "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) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Alzheimer's
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Alzheimer's Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Alzheimer's
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Alzheimer's Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Alzheimer's
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Alzheimer's "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Alzheimer's
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Man and wife make one fool. "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Alzheimer's It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Alzheimer's
"For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "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 equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Alzheimer's Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Alzheimer's
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Alzheimer's Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Alzheimer's
