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Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. -- Woody Allen I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. -- Mark Twain Victory belongs to the most persevering. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Q Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. -- Samuel Johnson There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland Q Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage. -- John Murray Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to. -- Mark Twain Q Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. -- French saying My other wife is beautiful. Q And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide. -- Chris Hubbock, who sh If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all. -- Anonymous Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. -- Pancho Villa, dying words The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing. -- Sigmund Freud These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. -- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Q Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry Q I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. - Umberto Eco "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Q I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. - A. J. Liebling Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- George bernard Shaw "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Q We can do not great things - only small things with great love. -- Mother Theresa "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- G. K. Chesterton "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach Q "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Q "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) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness! -- Mark Russell The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Ehrlich Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -- Pope Julius III Q Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. -- James Stephens Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good taste in men! -- Wedding Toast Q "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the moment. -- Robert Benchley A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust. -- Nanette Newman, British actress The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. Eliot I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. -- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Q Victory belongs to the most persevering. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Q If you can't convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S. Truman "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -- Oscar Wilde "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence. -- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Q You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. -- George Bernard Shaw Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen. -- Albert Einstein Q I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. -- English Professor, Ohio University We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. -- John Webster The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. -- Euripides Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera. - James Stephens Q "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein Q My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Give the people not hell, but hope and courage. -- John Murray An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human Why don't you write books people can read? -- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. --Anon. Q "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "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) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and Q It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed. They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position. -- John Hogan, Commonwealth I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! -- Will Rogers If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Criticism is prejudice made plausible. -- H. L. Mencken Q The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. -- Roger Simon "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. -- St. Augustine Q
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