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Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Specialties Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Specialties
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh 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 "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Specialties "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Specialties
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. May you never leave your marriage alive. Specialties What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Specialties
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt 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 If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Specialties I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Specialties
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Specialties If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Specialties
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Specialties "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Specialties
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Specialties Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Specialties
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "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) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Specialties We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Specialties
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Specialties Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Specialties
blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Specialties We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Specialties
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler 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 "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Specialties There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Specialties
