"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
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-- Jose Ortega y Gasset I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
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-- H. L. Mencken The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
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I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Who, being loved, is poor?
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take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Chats and Forums The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
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-- August Strindberg Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Chats and Forums "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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-- Anonymous Chats and Forums
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
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-- G. K. Chesterton Chats and Forums Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
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-- George Benard Shaw Chats and Forums
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
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-- Robert Frost Chats and Forums Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
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Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
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-- Oscar Wilde Chats and Forums A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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- George Bernard Shaw Chats and Forums
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Chats and Forums We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
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We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
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-- James Joyce Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Chats and Forums
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 Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Chats and Forums "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Chats and Forums
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will 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 If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Chats and Forums "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Chats and Forums
