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"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Chats and Forums "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
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"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) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Chats and Forums "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. 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 Chats and Forums
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Chats and Forums It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Chats and Forums
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Chats and Forums Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Chats and Forums
"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "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 Chats and Forums The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Chats and Forums
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Chats and Forums However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Chats and Forums
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Chats and Forums Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Chats and Forums
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Chats and Forums It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Chats and Forums
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Chats and Forums Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Chats and Forums
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Chats and Forums 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 Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Chats and Forums
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Chats and Forums 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh 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 Chats and Forums
