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The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Lhanbryde Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Lhanbryde
In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb 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 Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Lhanbryde To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Lhanbryde
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 "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Lhanbryde Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Lhanbryde
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Lhanbryde blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Lhanbryde
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Lhanbryde Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Lhanbryde
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Lhanbryde The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Lhanbryde
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Lhanbryde Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student 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 Lhanbryde
"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) 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 May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Lhanbryde Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Lhanbryde
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Lhanbryde It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Lhanbryde
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker 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 Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Lhanbryde "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) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Lhanbryde
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Lhanbryde I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Lhanbryde
