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I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers EQUITY 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 Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) EQUITY
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician EQUITY UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. EQUITY
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, EQUITY Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James EQUITY
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman EQUITY We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton EQUITY
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) EQUITY Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain EQUITY
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold EQUITY With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain EQUITY
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses EQUITY ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. EQUITY
"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb 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 Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost EQUITY Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël EQUITY
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) EQUITY If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney EQUITY
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper EQUITY It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. EQUITY
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 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. Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado EQUITY The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "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 EQUITY
