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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Ayr In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "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 Ayr
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Ayr Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Ayr
Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Ayr Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Ayr
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) 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 reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Ayr "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Ayr
"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis 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 Ayr We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Ayr
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Ayr Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ayr
"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) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Ayr "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Ayr
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Ayr How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Ayr
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Ayr Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Ayr
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Ayr Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Ayr
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) 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 We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Ayr "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Ayr
