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Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Toxicology "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Toxicology
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Toxicology It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Toxicology
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Toxicology "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Toxicology
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Toxicology No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Toxicology
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "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) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Toxicology The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Toxicology
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Toxicology Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Toxicology
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Toxicology 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 He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Toxicology
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Toxicology The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Toxicology
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Toxicology "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Toxicology
In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s 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 Toxicology Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Toxicology
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 Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Toxicology As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Toxicology
