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 Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood A small family is soon provided for.
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-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
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-- Bill Hoest Arts and Entertainment
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
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so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
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-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
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-- Brendon Behan "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Arts and Entertainment
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
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-- Ogden Nash Arts and Entertainment I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
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-- Robert Frost Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
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-- Frank Zappa The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Arts and Entertainment Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
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I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch What do you take me for, an idiot?
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-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
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- Sacha Guitry "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Arts and Entertainment No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
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-- Billy Sunday No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Arts and Entertainment
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
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-- W. Somerset Maugham Arts and Entertainment You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
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"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
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-- Shecky Greene I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer May you never leave your marriage alive. Arts and Entertainment The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Arts and Entertainment
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
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-- Groucho Marx If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Arts and Entertainment I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Arts and Entertainment
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
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"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
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-- Dawn French Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Arts and Entertainment Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
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-- Erich Fromm Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
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-- H.L. Mencken He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Arts and Entertainment
