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"Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Censorship Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Censorship
Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "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) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Censorship I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Censorship
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Censorship For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Censorship
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Censorship "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "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') Censorship
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Censorship Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
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Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Censorship Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Censorship
blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Censorship "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Censorship
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) Censorship Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Censorship
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Censorship If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Censorship
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland 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 Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Censorship I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Censorship
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Censorship What's new? Most of my wife. "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Censorship
