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"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Television Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Television
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Television You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec 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 Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Television
Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Television Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Television
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "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 Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Television "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Television
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane 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 Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Television Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Television
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Television The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Television
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Television A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Television
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 The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Television There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Television
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Television The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Television
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Television If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Television
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Television Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Television
