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Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Game Fishing Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Game Fishing
"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Game Fishing One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Game Fishing
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Game Fishing Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Game Fishing
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Game Fishing Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Game Fishing
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
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where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Game Fishing
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Game Fishing Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Game Fishing
We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) 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 Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Game Fishing Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
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"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Game Fishing The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Game Fishing
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
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-- Lucille S. Harper Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Game Fishing
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "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) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Game Fishing It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Game Fishing
"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
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