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"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) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Pontypool Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Pontypool
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Pontypool You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Pontypool
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Pontypool Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Pontypool
the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 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 Pontypool Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Pontypool
There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Pontypool The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Pontypool
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Pontypool "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Pontypool
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) 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 I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Pontypool The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Pontypool
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Pontypool 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 When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Pontypool
"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Pontypool Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
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-- John Barrymore - last words He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Pontypool
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "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 Pontypool Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Pontypool
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 Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Pontypool To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Pontypool
