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-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Structures Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Structures
Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Structures 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 "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Structures
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Structures I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Structures
Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Structures In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Structures
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Structures The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team What's new? Most of my wife. Structures
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Structures "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Structures
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Structures What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Structures
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Structures If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Structures
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress >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 Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Structures "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Structures
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Structures I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Structures
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Structures Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Structures
