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-- Lewis Grizzard Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
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"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard A clever man commits no minor blunders.
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-- Abraham Lincoln Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Arts and Entertainment
"Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
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-- Essie Summers If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Arts and Entertainment
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Arts and Entertainment It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Arts and Entertainment
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Arts and Entertainment "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
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-- Thomas Jefferson Arts and Entertainment Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Arts and Entertainment
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Arts and Entertainment Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Arts and Entertainment
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
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-- Woody Allen Arts and Entertainment A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins 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 "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) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
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help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Arts and Entertainment
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. 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 "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Arts and Entertainment We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
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Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey 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 "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
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