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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner News and Media Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb News and Media
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll News and Media "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) News and Media
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) News and Media We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) News and Media
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show News and Media Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner 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 News and Media
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) 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 "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 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 She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James News and Media "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell News and Media
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed News and Media Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban News and Media
Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. News and Media When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man News and Media
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton News and Media 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 Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort News and Media
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) News and Media "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) 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 Unhappy News and Media
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe News and Media "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen News and Media
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson News and Media An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) News and Media
