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-- Josh Billings Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
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During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
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-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell 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.
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of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all News and Media
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
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-- Oscar Wilde If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott News and Media
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha News and Media Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) News and Media
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
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The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
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"Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
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-- Semisonic, Closing Time Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso News and Media "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 Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck News and Media
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais News and Media Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli News and Media
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous News and Media Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx News and Media The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
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The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) News and Media Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
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