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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Government Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Government
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "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) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Government "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Government
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) 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 Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Government Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Government
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Government
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Government Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton What's new? Most of my wife. "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Government Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Government
Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Government Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Government
May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra 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 "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Government
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes 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 Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Government In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Government
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "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) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Government "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "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) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Government
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Government We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Government
