Wind Up Calls - Place a wind up call to one of your friends and then listen in on the line as they get wound up.
blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Pranks Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Pranks
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem 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 I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero 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 Pranks Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Pranks
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Pranks Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Pranks
Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 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 Marriage is a rest period between romances. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Pranks Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Pranks
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 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. "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "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) These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Pranks Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Pranks
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "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) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Pranks The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Pranks
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Pranks Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Pranks
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Pranks I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "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) Pranks
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Pranks There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Pranks
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Pranks "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) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Pranks
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Pranks "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
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