There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Chats and Forums I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Chats and Forums
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 My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Chats and Forums Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
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Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic ... 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
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Chats and Forums The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Chats and Forums
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Chats and Forums "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Chats and Forums
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Chats and Forums "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Chats and Forums
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Chats and Forums blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Chats and Forums
If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Chats and Forums Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Chats and Forums
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Chats and Forums The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Chats and Forums
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Chats and Forums "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Chats and Forums
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Chats and Forums Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Chats and Forums
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Chats and Forums Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
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