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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Magazines Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Magazines
"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Man and wife make one fool. "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Magazines Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Magazines
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Magazines Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Magazines
"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) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Magazines What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Magazines
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Magazines Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Magazines
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Magazines Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Magazines
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Magazines "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) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Magazines
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Magazines You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Magazines
"In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Magazines "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Magazines
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence 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 Magazines Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller 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 Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Magazines
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Magazines When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Magazines
