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Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Outdoors "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Outdoors
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Outdoors "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Outdoors An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner 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 Outdoors
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Outdoors I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Outdoors
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Outdoors "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Outdoors
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Outdoors "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Outdoors
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Outdoors Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Outdoors
"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "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) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Outdoors "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Outdoors
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Outdoors Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Outdoors "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Outdoors
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Outdoors "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Outdoors
