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Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Breeds Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Breeds
"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) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Breeds "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Breeds
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Breeds I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Spinster: A bachelor's wife. People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Breeds
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Breeds Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Breeds
Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley 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 With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Breeds If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Breeds
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) 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, Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Breeds There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Breeds
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Breeds Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Breeds
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Breeds Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Breeds
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Breeds When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Breeds
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël 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. She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Breeds Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Breeds
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Breeds Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Breeds
