Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Henderson A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Henderson The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
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The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Henderson Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Henderson
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "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 just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Henderson If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Henderson
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Henderson And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Henderson
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 Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Henderson There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Henderson
then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Henderson 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 "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) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Henderson
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Henderson "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Henderson
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Henderson 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 The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
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Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Henderson In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Henderson
"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) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Henderson They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Henderson
