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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. -- Oscar Wilde A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. -- Arthur Schoperhauer 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. -- ee cummings Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -- Margaret Thatcher "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Christianity Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. -- Erica Jong Christianity "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then." -- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Christianity Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Christianity Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. -- Helen Keller If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. -- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. -- Marcus Aurelius Christianity "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Christianity A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -- Oscar Wilde "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Christianity You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. -- Richard Bach The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. -- G. K. Chesterton Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to. -- Seen on a t-shirt Christianity "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -- Phillip Brooks The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. -- W. Somerset Maugham The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. - Lucille S. Harper Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves. -- F. Emerson Andrews Christianity We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. -- William Gladstone Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. -- Virginia Woolf Christianity "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly. -- Bhagava Gita One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual The course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -- Oscar Wilde Christianity "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. - W.B. Prescott "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Christianity Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. -- Woody Allen Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Christianity He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Christianity "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. - Aristotle Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Victor Borge "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Christianity A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. -- James Lowell The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. -- Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -- Oliver Herford Christianity The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Winston Churchill Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. -- Robert Frost "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown Christianity One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way. -- Vincent Van Gogh When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree. -- William Blake "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Christianity A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats. -- Anonymous They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. -- Antonio Porchi "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Laywers, I suppose, were children once. -- Charles Lamb Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -- G. K. Chesterton Christianity 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 We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. -- Margaret Atwood Christianity Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose it. -- Sigmund Freud Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The- Box. -- Wil Shriner Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. -- Aaron Levenstein "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) 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 Christianity Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. -- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain Success is just a matter of attitude. -- Darcy E. Gibbons Christianity
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