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UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous New Forest Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty New Forest
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves New Forest Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley New Forest
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard 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, When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley New Forest Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche New Forest
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France New Forest The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun New Forest
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell New Forest Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce New Forest
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein New Forest A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) New Forest
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. New Forest The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "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) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 New Forest
He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) New Forest "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) 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 think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song New Forest
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli New Forest The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun New Forest
The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "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 "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) New Forest A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller New Forest
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx New Forest A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson New Forest
