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- Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.
- - Unknown
- .
- After a year in therapy, my psychiatrist said to me,
- "Maybe life isn't for everyone."
- - Larry Brown
- .
- Whenever I'm caught between two evils,
- I take the one I never tried.
- - Mae West
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- When in doubt, duck.
- - Malcolm Forbes
- .
- You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination
- is out of focus.
- - Mark Twain
- .
- Television is democracy at its ugliest.
- - Paddy Chayevsky
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- Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
- - Erma Bombeck
- .
- The best revenge is to live long enough
- to be a problem to your children.
- - Unknown
- .
- My parents put a live teddy bear in my crib.
- - Woody Allen
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- Sex is natural, but not if it's done right.
- - Unknown
- .
- Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn.
- - Garrison Kiellor
- .
- It is more fun contemplating someone else's navel
- than your own.
- - Arthur Hoppe
- .
- Nothing is impossible for the man who
- doesn't have to do it himself.
- - A.H. Weiler
- .
- Plato was a bore.
- - Friedrich Nietzsche
- .
- Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
- - Leo Tolstoy
- .
- What a beautiful fix we are in now;
- peace has been declared.
- - Napolean Bonaparte
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- Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.
- - Kin Hubbard
- .
- Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser.
- - Unknown
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- My toughest fight was with my first wife.
- - Muhammad Ali
- .
- I'm immortal... so far.
- - Earle Robinson
- .
- It is in the ability to deceive oneself
- that the greatest talent is shown.
- - Anatole France
- .
- No individual raindrop ever considers itself
- responsible for the flood.
- - Anonymous
- .
- Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do
- and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
- - General George S. Patton
- .
- By all means marry. If you get a good wife,
- you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll
- become a philosopher.
- - Socrates
- .
- Zsa Zsa Gabor is an expert housekeeper. Every time
- she gets divorced, she keeps the house.
- - Henny Youngman
- .
- A string of reproaches against other people leads one
- to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches
- with the same content.
- - Sigmund Freud
- .
- A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine,
- except that a fine is generally much lighter.
- - G.K. Chesterson
- .
- Mental health problems do not affect three or four
- out of every five persons, but one out of every one.
- - Dr. Karl Menninger
- .
- The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to
- pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.
- - H.R. Trevor-Roper
- .
- There are more important things in life than a little money,
- and one of them is a lot of money.
- - Anonymous
- .
- There is no stronger craving in the world than that of
- the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches.
- - Hesketh Pearson
- .
- The two most beautiful words in the English
- language are "Check Enclosed."
- - Dorothy Parker
- .
- I never write "metropolis" for seven cents because I can
- get the same price for "city." I never write "policeman"
- because I can get the same money for "cop."
- - Mark Twain
- .
- There is a great discovery still to be made in
- literature: That of paying literary men for the
- quantity they do not write.
- - Thomas Carlyle
- .
- Blessed are they who have nothing to say,
- and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
- - James Russell Lowell
- .
- He who would do some great things in this short life
- must apply himself to work with such a concentration
- of force such that, to idle spectators who live only
- to amuse themselves, it looks like insanity.
- - Francis Parkman
- .
- They copied all they could copy,
- But they couldn't copy my mind;
-
- And I left them sweatin' and stealin',
- A year-and-a-half behind.
- - Rudyard Kipling
- .
- If I could get my membership fee back,
- I'd resign from the human race.
- - Fred Allen
- .
- You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes
- into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from
- themselves.
- - Michael Wilding
- .
- If 50 million people say a foolish thing,
- it is still a foolish thing.
- - Anatole France
- .
- If you took all the economists in the world and laid them
- end-to-end, it would be a pretty good idea.
- - Anonymous
- .
- The Great Big Black Things that have loomed against the
- horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed
- and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss
- my train have always been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant
- things of which I was not in the least afraid.
- - Elbert Hubbard
- .
- Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
- - Alexander Pope
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- Words are loaded pistols.
- - Jean-Paul Sartre
- .
- The dinosaurs's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is
- good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.
- - Eric Johnston
- .
- The taxpayer: Someone who works for the government but
- doesn't have to take a civil service examination.
- - Ronald Reagan
- .
- An alcoholic is someone you don't like
- who drinks as much as you do.
- - Dylan Thomas
- .
- Women speak two languages, one of which is verbal.
- - Steve Rubenstein
- .
- Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
- - Timothy Leary
- .
- Woman are like elephants to me. I like to look at them
- but I wouldn't like to own one.
- - W.C. Fields
- .
- You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
- - Dolly Parton
- .
- The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you
- wake up in the morning, you're on the job.
- - Lena Horne
- .
- Any new venture goes through the following stages:
- Enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search
- for the guilty, punishment of the innocent and
- decoration of those who did nothing.
- - Unknown
- .
- The trouble with eating Italian food is that
- five or six days later you're hungry again.
- - George Miller
- .
- Technological progress is like an axe
- in the hands of a pathological criminal.
- - Albert Einstein
- .
- Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie"
- until you can find a rock.
- - Will Rogers
- .
- The difference between a mountain
- and a molehill is your perspective.
- - Al Neuharth
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- Golf is the most fun you can have
- without taking your clothes off.
- - Chi Chi Rodriguez
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- No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
- - George Hean Nathan
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- Here's to our wives and sweethearts -- may they never meet.
- - John Bunny
- .
- There are only two ways of telling the complete truth:
- Anonymously and posthumously.
- - Thomas Sowell
- .
- There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that
- is that is there very little about which one can be certain.
- - W. Somerset Maugham
- .
- I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it
- for hours.
- - Jerome K. Jerome
- .
- I'd like to get married because I like the idea of a man
- being required by law to sleep with me every night.
- - Carrie Snow
- .
- I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge
- me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and
- lead him to a quiet place and kill him.
- - Mark Twain
- .
- There is nothing more exhilarating
- than to be shot at without result.
- - Winston Churchill
- .
- The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of
- Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
- - Mark Russell
- .
- I'm not an ambulance chaser.
- I'm usually there before the ambulance.
- - Melvin Belli
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- Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
- - H. L. Mencken
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- Silence is argument carried on by other means.
- - Ernesto "Che" Guevara
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- As scarce as the truth is, the supply
- has always been in excess of the demand.
- - Josh Billings
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- It is impossible to feel the equal of someone
- who's been awake longer than you.
- - Mary Gordon ("Final Payments")
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- Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted
- but getting what you have, which once you have it you
- may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted
- had you known.
- - Garrison Keillor
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- Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
- - Samuel Johnson
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- Properly speaking, there is no such thank as educations.
- Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes
- from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is
- like, it will have to passed on somehow, consciously or
- unconsciously, and that transition may be called
- education.
- - G. K. Chesterson
- .
- If you pick up a dog and make him prosperous, he will not
- bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog
- and a man.
- - Mark Twain
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- You can't use tact with a Congressman. A congressman is
- a hog. You must take a stick and hit him on the snout.
- - Henry Adams
- .
- When you consider what a chance women have to poison
- their husbands, it's a wonder there isn't more of it
- done.
- - Kin Hubbard
- .
- The most important difference between business and
- academia is this: In business everything is dog eat
- dog. In academia it is just the reverse.
- - E. John Rosenwald, Jr.
- .
- Man is a thinking animal, a talking animal, a toolmaking
- animal, a building animal, a political animal, a
- fantasizing animal. But, in the twilight of a
- civilization he is chiefly a taxpaying animal.
- - Hugh MacLennan
- .
- As a member of an escorted tour, you don't even have to
- know the Matterhorn isn't a tuba.
- - Temple Fielding
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- It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
- - Benjamin Disraeli
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- In American, an hour is about 40 minutes.
- - German Saying
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- Owing money has never concerned me so long as I know
- where it could be repaid.
- - Colonel Henry Crown
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- Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written
- in poetry and the remaining chapters are written in
- prose.
- - Beverley Nichols
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- Bachelors know more about women than married men.
- If they didn't, they be married too.
- - H. L. Mencken
- .
- There is not money in poetry, but then there is not
- poetry in money, either.
- - Robert Graves
- .
- Poets, we know, are very sensitive people, and in my
- observation, one of the things they are most sensitive
- about is cash.
- - Robert Penn Warren
- .
- You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is
- enough suffering for anyone.
- - John Ciardi
- .
- People who read me seem to be divided into four groups:
- Twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons; 25%
- like me for the wrong reasons; 25% hate me for the wrong
- reasons; 25% hate me for the right reasons. It's that
- last 25% that worries me.
- - Robert Frost
- .
- Originality is the art of concealing your source.
- - Franklin P. Jones
- .
- The command, "Be fruitful and multiply," was
- promulgated, according to our authorities, when the
- population of the world consisted of two persons.
- - Dean William R. Inge
- .
- One function of diplomacy is to dress realism in morality.
- - Will and Ariel Durant
- .
- No man would listen to you if he didn't know
- it was his turn next.
- - Ed Howe
- .
- It is alright to hold a conversation but you should let
- go of it now and then.
- - Richard Armour
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- One man with courage makes it a majority.
- - Andrew Jackson
- .
- Man is demolishing nature. We are killing things that
- keep us alive.
- - Thor Heyerdahl
- .
- To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit
- reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to
- be either fools or slaves.
- - Claude Adrien Helvetius
- .
- The great dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment
- by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
- - Justice Louis D. Brandeis
- .
- He led his regiment from behind- /He found it less
- exciting. /But when away his regiment ran, /His place
- was in the fore, O.
- - W. S. Gilbert
- .
- Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not
- always like being taught.
- - Winston Churchill
- .
- A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get
- beat up.
- - Murray Kempton
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- The only prize much care for by the powerful is power.
- The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but
- command.
- - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr
- .
- A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
- - Wendell L. Willkie
- .
- There is no future in any job. The future lies in the
- man who holds the job.
- - Dr. George Crane
- .
- If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the
- land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
- - William Feather
- .
- By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may
- eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
- - Robert Frost
- .
- Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those
- who dared believe that something inside then was superior
- to circumstances.
- - Bruce Barton
- .
- Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and
- throws away food.
- - Austin O'Malley
- .
- In my opinion, we are in danger of developing a cult
- of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.
- - Herbert Hoover
- .
- I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as
- there is in others, if not more.
- - Edwards Noyes Wescott
- .
- It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware
- of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a
- biological principle.
- - Ashley Montagu
- .
- There is only one thing that can keep growing without
- nourishment: The human ego.
- - Marshall Lumsden
- .
- Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of
- choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing
- to be achieved.
- - William Jennings Bryan
- .
- When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called
- America before the white man came, an Indian said simply,
- "Ours."
- - Vine Deloria, Jr.
- .
- If one advances confidently in the direction of his
- dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has
- imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in
- common hours.
- - Henry David Thoreau
- .
- Success is the one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.
- - Ambrose Bierce
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- It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- - George Bernard Shaw
- .
- Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are
- objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to
- break up traffic jams.
- - Mary Ellen Kelly
- .
- The truth is more important than the facts.
- - Frank Lloyd Wright
- .
- Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- - Mark Twain
- .
- The greater the number of laws and enactments,
- the more thieves and robbers there will be.
- - Lao-tzu (604-531 B.C.)
- .
- Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching
- them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the
- desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and
- following them, you reach your destiny.
- - Carl Schurz
- .
- Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up
- in the morning.
- - Marlo Thomas
- .
- I don't care what you say, women make the best wives.
- - Dagwood Bumstead
- .
- Husbands are like fires; they go out when unattended.
- - Zsa Zsa Gabor
- .
- Genius is perseverence in disguise.
- - Mike Newlin
- .
- Love: Two minds without a single thought.
- - Philip Barry
- .
- Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
- - William Gaddis
- .
- All animals except man know that the principal
- business of life is to enjoy it.
- - Samuel Butler
- ,
- A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you
- more than he loves himself.
- - Josh Billings
- .
- The trouble with a kitten is That
- Eventually it becomes a Cat.
- - Ogden Nash
- .
- Human beings are the only animals of which I am
- throughly and cravenly afraid.
- - George Bernard Shaw
- .
- Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded
- and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed
- custom brings sure punishment.
- - Mark Twain
- .
- An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.
- An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
- - G.K. Chesterson
- .
- Woman's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the
- men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children.
- And no one's likely to do anything about that.
- - Golda Meir
- .
- The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow
- creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate, but
- almost disqualified for life.
- - Albert Einstein
- .
- There is only one thing in the world worse than being
- talked about, and that is not being talked about.
- - Oscar Wilde
- .
- This is the last one.
- - Ron VanAbrahams
-