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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Language Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Language
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Language 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 Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Language
"Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Language Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Language
"One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Language "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Language
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Language No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Language
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Language Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Language
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Language The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Language
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford 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 CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Language "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) 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 Language
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Language A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Language
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Language Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Language
"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Language I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Language
