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All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Government Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Government
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Government "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Government
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) 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 Government "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Government
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Government "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Government
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Government Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Government
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 This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Government blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Government
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 Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Government "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Government
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Government When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Government
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Government My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Government
"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Government "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Government
"I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Government Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Government
