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-- Ambrose Bierce "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
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-- Oscar Wilde Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Magazines It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Magazines
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Magazines Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Magazines The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Magazines
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Magazines A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Magazines
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Magazines True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Magazines
Marriage is a rest period between romances. Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Magazines A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Magazines
Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Magazines Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb 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
disg I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Magazines
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Magazines You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Magazines
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Magazines Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Magazines Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Magazines
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. 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 Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Magazines He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Magazines
