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Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease
People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease
Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease 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 Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease
"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease
