Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Rescue The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? ... 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 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 There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Rescue "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Rescue
When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Rescue Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Rescue
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Rescue As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Rescue
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Rescue Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Rescue
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Rescue Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper 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 I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Rescue
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston 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 "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Rescue Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Rescue
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Rescue Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Rescue
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Rescue Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Rescue
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Rescue "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Rescue
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Rescue You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Rescue
