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A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) 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 "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe News "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde News
"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason News Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "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 I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i News
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup News The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) News
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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 In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde News Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy News
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV News If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar News
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West News Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "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 "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet News Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns News
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "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) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb News The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein "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 If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams News
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali News Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) News
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) News I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood News
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do News Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes News
