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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Countryside Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Countryside
The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Countryside Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison 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 Countryside
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Countryside "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Countryside
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Countryside "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) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Countryside
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Countryside Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Countryside
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright 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 Countryside "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Countryside
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf 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 "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Countryside >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Countryside
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Countryside Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Countryside
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Countryside If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "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 Countryside
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Countryside The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Countryside
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Countryside Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Countryside
