"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Shooting Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
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Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl 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 Shooting Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Shooting
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Shooting Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Shooting
The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Shooting It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Shooting
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Shooting "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Shooting
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Shooting Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Shooting
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Shooting When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Shooting
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Shooting "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Shooting
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Shooting "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) 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 "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Shooting
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Shooting It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Shooting
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Shooting "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Shooting
