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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu >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 Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Alva Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Alva
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Alva And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Alva
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Alva 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 There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Alva
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford 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 blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Alva Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Alva
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Alva Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Alva
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Alva It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Alva
"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Alva "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Alva
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Alva A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Alva
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 "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Alva Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Alva
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, 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 "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Alva "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Alva
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "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 As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Alva Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Alva
