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Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Gwynedd May you never leave your marriage alive. The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Gwynedd
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Gwynedd By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Gwynedd
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Gwynedd Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Gwynedd
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Gwynedd "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) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Gwynedd
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Gwynedd During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Gwynedd
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Gwynedd Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Gwynedd
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Gwynedd "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) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Gwynedd
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Gwynedd Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Gwynedd
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Gwynedd Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Gwynedd
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "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) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Gwynedd The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Gwynedd
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous 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 "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Gwynedd He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Gwynedd
