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The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Directories "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Directories
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Directories Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "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 No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Directories
"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) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Directories There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Directories
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Directories A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Directories
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Directories If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Directories
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Directories Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Directories
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Directories What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Directories
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Directories True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) 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
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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Directories Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Directories
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Directories My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Directories
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Directories It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Directories
