the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz N Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde N
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "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 I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi 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 To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde N A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack N
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) N Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. N
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov N When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) N
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "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) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins N In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx N
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein N The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) N
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde N "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee N
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m N "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) N
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb N "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) N
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. N "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) N
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde N Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
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