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"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle 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 Breaking News A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Breaking News
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Breaking News I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Breaking News
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Breaking News Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Breaking News
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Breaking News I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Spinster: A bachelor's wife. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Breaking News
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Breaking News A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Breaking News
For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Breaking News Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Breaking News
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Breaking News Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Breaking News
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Breaking News Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Breaking News
We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Breaking News Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Breaking News
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Breaking News "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Breaking News
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "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 Breaking News A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Breaking News
