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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett 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 MacPherson "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do MacPherson
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire MacPherson A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde MacPherson
Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) MacPherson My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) MacPherson
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous MacPherson "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? MacPherson
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) MacPherson I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar MacPherson
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 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 MacPherson I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin MacPherson
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) MacPherson Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain MacPherson
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein MacPherson I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) MacPherson
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara MacPherson To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder MacPherson
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer MacPherson A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) MacPherson
"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull MacPherson Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld MacPherson
