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Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Contin The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Contin
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Contin In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Contin
Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "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 "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Contin 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 In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Contin
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Contin Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Contin
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Contin "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Contin
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Contin "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Contin
To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Contin Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Contin
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Contin Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Contin
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch 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 Contin "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Contin
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Contin There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Contin
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 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 "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Contin When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Contin
