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If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Government "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Government
Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Government Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Government
If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Government 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 I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Government
He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Government Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Government
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Government "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Government
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Government What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Government
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Government Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Government
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Government "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "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 If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Government
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Government "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Government
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce 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 Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Government Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Government
A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "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) Government "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Government
