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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 The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Opposing Views I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Opposing Views
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Opposing Views "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Opposing Views
When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Opposing Views No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Opposing Views
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Opposing Views Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Opposing Views
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara 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 I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Opposing Views Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Opposing Views
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Opposing Views The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "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) Opposing Views
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "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 "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Opposing Views Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Opposing Views
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Opposing Views We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Opposing Views
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Opposing Views 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 When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Opposing Views
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Opposing Views "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Opposing Views
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Opposing Views If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Opposing Views
