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Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph MacLaren "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde MacLaren
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) MacLaren It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp 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 MacLaren
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) MacLaren A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "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) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. MacLaren
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) May you never leave your marriage alive. Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) MacLaren More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo MacLaren
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian 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 Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld MacLaren The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous MacLaren
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) MacLaren Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" MacLaren
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson 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 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 "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) MacLaren Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland MacLaren
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "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) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III MacLaren Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous MacLaren
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford MacLaren "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) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) MacLaren
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) MacLaren It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham MacLaren
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley MacLaren It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull MacLaren
