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"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Animals "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Animals
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Animals We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Animals
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Animals The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Animals
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Animals Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Animals
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Animals In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Animals
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Animals We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Animals
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Animals I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Animals
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec 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 The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Animals "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Animals
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Animals If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries 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.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Animals
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Animals "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Animals
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Animals If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Animals
