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"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Diet Advise Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Diet Advise
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Diet Advise Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Diet Advise
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Diet Advise Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Diet Advise
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Diet Advise It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Diet Advise
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Diet Advise Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Diet Advise
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Diet Advise Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol 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." ( Diet Advise
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Diet Advise We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Diet Advise
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Diet Advise Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Diet Advise
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Diet Advise Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Diet Advise
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Diet Advise 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Diet Advise
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Diet Advise Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Diet Advise
