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When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Associations It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "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) Associations
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Associations "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Associations
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Associations I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Associations
blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Associations Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig 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) Associations
"If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Associations It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Associations
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Associations 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, In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Associations
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Associations It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Associations
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Associations "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Associations
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Associations My other wife is beautiful. If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Associations
"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Associations Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Associations
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Associations I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Associations
