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The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton People It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor People
"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. People "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek 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 People
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. People Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous People
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards People Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet People
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball People When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) People
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 Nietzsche Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans People Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous People
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard People 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 You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett People
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck People The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Spinster: A bachelor's wife. People
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver People Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde People
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) 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 People We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha People
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President People It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf People
