The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
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-- Jacob Braude If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Industries If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Industries
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Industries One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Industries
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley 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 Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
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-- Marvin Kitman Industries Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Industries
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Industries "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Industries
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Industries A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Industries
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
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-- Robert Frost blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Industries Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Industries
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Industries Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Industries
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "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 To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Industries Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
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It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Industries Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Industries
"God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good 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 "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Industries Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Industries
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cocaine.
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth 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 Industries There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Industries
