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12/31/02 |
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The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. -- Eric Hoffer. |
12/30/02 |
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I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein. |
12/29/02 |
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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. -- John Kenneth Galbraith. |
12/28/02 |
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They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. -- Emily Dickinson. |
12/27/02 |
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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them. -- Mark Twain. |
12/26/02 |
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B. F. Skinner. |
12/25/02 |
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. -- Will Durant. |
12/24/02 |
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Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. -- Cary Grant. |
12/23/02 |
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Only fools are positive. -- Moe Howard. |
12/22/02 |
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Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug. -- Jon Lithgow. |
12/21/02 |
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It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. -- H. L. Mencken. |
12/20/02 |
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Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists? -- Kelvin Throop III. |
12/19/02 |
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Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa. |
12/18/02 |
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I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS. -- Robert Bakker, paleontologist. |
12/17/02 |
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Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. -- Will Rogers. |
12/16/02 |
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Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else. -- James Thorpe. |
12/15/02 |
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. -- Anatole France. |
12/14/02 |
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. -- George Bernard Shaw. |
12/13/02 |
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Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. -- Oscar Wilde. |
12/12/02 |
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I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time. -- Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in Peanuts. |
12/11/02 |
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I can't complain, but sometimes I still do. -- Joe Walsh. |
12/10/02 |
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You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. -- Henry Ford. |
12/09/02 |
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I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years. -- Samuel Goldwyn. |
12/08/02 |
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. -- J. R. R. Tolkien. |
12/07/02 |
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Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. -- Steven Wright. |
12/06/02 |
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It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. -- Jerry Seinfeld. |
12/05/02 |
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When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld. |
12/04/02 |
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. -- Saki (H. H. Munro). |
12/03/02 |
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Never have children, only grandchildren. -- Gore Vidal. |
12/02/02 |
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I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz. |
12/01/02 |
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If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going. -- Professor Irwin Corey. |
11/30/02 |
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I have read your book and much like it. -- Moses Hadas. |
11/29/02 |
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If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. -- Bob Hope. |
11/28/02 |
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I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either. -- Jack Benny. |
11/27/02 |
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. -- Samuel Butler. |
11/26/02 |
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A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out. -- Samuel Johnson. |
11/25/02 |
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The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass. -- Martin Mull. |
11/24/02 |
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese? -- Charles De Gaulle. |
11/23/02 |
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Literature is news that stays news. -- Ezra Pound. |
11/22/02 |
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. -- Bertrand Russell. |
11/21/02 |
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It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. -- Douglas Adams. |
11/20/02 |
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I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake - which I also keep handy. -- W. C. Fields. |
11/19/02 |
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Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings. -- George Will. |
11/18/02 |
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Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. -- Paul Gauguin. |
11/17/02 |
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I'm still an atheist, thank God. -- Luis Bunuel. |
11/16/02 |
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You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun. -- Al Capone. |
11/15/02 |
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You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. -- Sacha Guitry. |
11/14/02 |
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I have an existential map. It has YOU ARE HERE written all over it. -- Steven Wright. |
11/13/02 |
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I'm as pure as the driven slush. -- Tallulah Bankhead. |
11/12/02 |
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect. -- Ted Turner. |
11/11/02 |
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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. -- Carl Sandburg. |
11/10/02 |
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. -- H. L. Mencken. |
11/09/02 |
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The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful. -- Frederick Locker-Lampson. |
11/08/02 |
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She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B. -- Dorothy Parker, speaking of Katharine Hepburn. |
11/07/02 |
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Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. -- George Burns. |
11/06/02 |
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If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself. -- Mickey Mantle. |
11/05/02 |
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. -- Sam Levenson. |
11/04/02 |
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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. -- George Eliot. |
11/03/02 |
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up. -- W. Somerset Maugham. |
11/02/02 |
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There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee. -- Lester J. Pourciau. |
11/01/02 |
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I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks. -- Totie Fields. |
10/31/02 |
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What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to. -- Hansell B. Duckett. |
10/30/02 |
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. -- Will Durant. |
10/29/02 |
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch. -- Orson Welles. |
10/28/02 |
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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast. -- W. S. Gilbert. |
10/27/02 |
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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. -- Mark Twain. |
10/26/02 |
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Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. -- Henry David Thoreau. |
10/25/02 |
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There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. -- Thomas A. Edison. |
10/24/02 |
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A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. -- Ogden Nash. |
10/23/02 |
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I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. -- William H. Mauldin. |
10/22/02 |
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Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. -- Suzanne Necker. |
10/21/02 |
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It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it. -- Henry Allen. |
10/20/02 |
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I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific. -- Jane Wagner. |
10/19/02 |
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What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. -- Dave Barry. |
10/18/02 |
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The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else. -- John Blake. |
10/17/02 |
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. -- W. Somerset Maugham. |
10/16/02 |
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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something. -- Jackie Mason. |
10/15/02 |
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I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber. |
10/14/02 |
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary. |
10/13/02 |
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. -- Truman Capote. |
10/12/02 |
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Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens. -- Nick Diamos. |
10/11/02 |
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Work is the curse of the drinking classes. -- Oscar Wilde. |
10/10/02 |
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Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves. -- Dorothy Parker. |
10/09/02 |
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Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation. -- Kin Hubbard. |
10/08/02 |
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What luck for rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler. |
10/07/02 |
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A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions. -- Wilson Mizner. |
10/06/02 |
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. -- Immanuel Kant. |
10/05/02 |
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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. -- Charles Lamb. |
10/04/02 |
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A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. -- Joseph Stalin. |
10/03/02 |
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There must be more to life than having everything. -- Maurice Sendak. |
10/02/02 |
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The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. -- Will Rogers. |
10/01/02 |
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Cram it, ma'am. -- Nelson Muntz. |
09/30/02 |
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Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. -- Sir Winston Churchill. |
09/29/02 |
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The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it. -- Joan Rivers. |
09/28/02 |
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I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that. -- Tom Lehrer. |
09/27/02 |
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If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer? -- Steven Wright. |
09/26/02 |
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Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. -- Charlie McCarthy, (Edgar Bergen). |
09/25/02 |
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It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. -- John Andrew Holmes. |
09/24/02 |
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Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. -- Plato. |
09/23/02 |
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Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess. |
09/22/02 |
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To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep. -- Joan Klempner. |
09/21/02 |
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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple. -- Oscar Wilde. |
09/20/02 |
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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? -- Jean Cocteau. |
09/19/02 |
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. -- German Proverb. |
09/18/02 |
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The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. -- Aesop. |
09/17/02 |
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Spare no expense to save money on this one. -- Samuel Goldwyn. |
09/16/02 |
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso. |
09/15/02 |
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Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps. -- Emo Phillips. |
09/14/02 |
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The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. -- P. G. Wodehouse. |
09/13/02 |
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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. -- Sir Winston Churchill. |
09/12/02 |
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -- Voltaire. |
09/11/02 |
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Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. -- Frank Dane. |
09/10/02 |
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My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. -- Steven Wright. |
09/09/02 |
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A poem is never finished, only abandoned. -- Paul Valery. |
09/08/02 |
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There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. -- W. Somerset Maugham. |
09/07/02 |
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There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. -- Henry Kissinger. |
09/06/02 |
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I think the world is run by 'C' students. -- Al McGuire. |
09/05/02 |
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You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing. -- Michael Pritchard. |
09/04/02 |
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If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day. -- John A. Wheeler. |
09/03/02 |
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. -- Erica Jong. |
09/02/02 |
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Exercise extends one's old age by half the time spent exercising one's youth away. -- Horace Aeiouey, Jr. |
09/01/02 |
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The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb. -- Benny Hill. |
08/31/02 |
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I have often depended on the blindness of strangers. -- Adrienne E. Gusoff. |
08/30/02 |
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The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver. -- Jay Leno. |
08/29/02 |
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. -- Mae West. |
08/28/02 |
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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. -- Joseph Heller. |
08/27/02 |
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We're all in this alone. -- Lily Tomlin. |
08/26/02 |
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Every crowd has a silver lining. -- Phineas Taylor Barnum. |
08/25/02 |
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I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up. -- Tom Lehrer. |
08/24/02 |
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Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped. -- Groucho Marx. |
08/23/02 |
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Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. -- John F. Kennedy. |
08/22/02 |
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One man's folly is another man's wife. -- Helen Rowland. |
08/21/02 |
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I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight. -- Rita Rudner. |
08/20/02 |
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Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. -- Timothy Leary. |
08/19/02 |
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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. -- John Updike. |
08/18/02 |
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Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. -- Jules Renard. |
08/17/02 |
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His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. -- Woody Allen. |
08/16/02 |
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No man ever listened himself out of a job. -- Calvin Coolidge. |
08/15/02 |
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. -- P. J. O'Rourke. |
08/14/02 |
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If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt. -- Dean Martin. |
08/13/02 |
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It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. -- Samuel Butler. |
08/12/02 |
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -- Thomas A. Edison. |
08/11/02 |
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It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. -- H. L. Mencken. |
08/10/02 |
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Life is too important to take seriously. -- Corky Siegel. |
08/09/02 |
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. -- Ellen Parr. |
08/08/02 |
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In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. -- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. |
08/07/02 |
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. -- Henry Kissinger. |
08/06/02 |
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Food is an important part of a balanced diet. -- Fran Lebowitz. |
08/05/02 |
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Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor. -- Laurence J. Peter. |
08/04/02 |
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Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day. -- Mickey Rooney. |
08/03/02 |
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions. -- Senator Patrick Leahy, May 1990. |
08/02/02 |
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Never confuse motion with action. -- Benjamin Franklin. |
08/01/02 |
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No one can earn a million dollars honestly. -- William Jennings Bryan. |
07/31/02 |
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Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address. -- Lane Olinghouse. |
07/30/02 |
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The two most abundant things in the universe are hydrogren and stupidity. -- Harlan Ellison. |
07/29/02 |
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I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. -- Mark Twain. |
07/28/02 |
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Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. -- H. H. Williams. |
07/27/02 |
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Look for the ridiculous in everything, and you will find it. -- Jules Renard. |
07/26/02 |
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors. -- Quentin Crisp. |
07/25/02 |
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There is no difference between a moron and a genius who sounds like a moron. - Horace Aeiouaey, Jr. |
07/24/02 |
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Instant gratification takes too long. -- Carrie Fisher. |
07/23/02 |
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God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. -- Paul Valery. |
07/22/02 |
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When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. -- Gracie Allen. |
07/21/02 |
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Of those who say nothing, few are silent. -- Thomas Neill. |
07/20/02 |
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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. -- Mark Twain. |
07/19/02 |
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1. Never tell everything at once. -- Ken Venturi, Ken Venturi's Two Great Rules of Life. |
07/18/02 |
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It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis. -- Margaret Bonnano. |
07/17/02 |
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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. |
07/16/02 |
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Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away. -- Robert Orben. |
07/15/02 |
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You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in. -- Arlo Guthrie. |
07/14/02 |
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. -- Oscar Wilde. |
07/13/02 |
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Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. -- Tom Robbins. |
07/12/02 |
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Everything you can imagine is real. -- Pablo Picasso. |
07/11/02 |
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Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -- Fred Allen. |
07/10/02 |
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -- Abraham Lincoln. |
07/09/02 |
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He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike. -- William Shakespeare. |
07/08/02 |
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. -- George Bernard Shaw. |
07/07/02 |
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I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. -- Noel Coward. |
07/06/02 |
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein. |
07/05/02 |
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Honesty is the best image. -- Tom Wilson (Ziggy). |
07/04/02 |
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Never eat more than you can lift. -- Miss Piggy. |
07/03/02 |
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. -- Mark Twain. |
07/02/02 |
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Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. -- Marilyn Monroe. |
07/01/02 |
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Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs? -- Spike Milligan, from The Goon Show. |
06/30/02 |
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I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell. -- Harry S Truman. |
06/29/02 |
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The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O. -- Martin Mull. |
06/28/02 |
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No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up. -- Lily Tomlin. |
06/27/02 |
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Life is a zoo in a jungle. -- Peter De Vries. |
06/26/02 |
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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin. |
06/25/02 |
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Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. -- Matt Groening. |
06/24/02 |
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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. -- Elbert Hubbard. |
06/23/02 |
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I am at two with nature. -- Woody Allen. |
06/22/02 |
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If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. -- Tallulah Bankhead. |
06/21/02 |
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An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. -- Simon Cameron. |
06/20/02 |
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I am not sincere, even when I say I am not. -- Jules Renard. |
06/19/02 |
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour. -- Samuel Goldwyn. |
06/18/02 |
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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur. -- Doug Larson. |
06/17/02 |
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. -- Mel Brooks. |
06/16/02 |
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I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. -- Harry S Truman. |
06/15/02 |
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I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. -- George Bernard Shaw. |
06/14/02 |
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. -- Quentin Crisp. |
06/13/02 |
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. -- Victor Borge. |
06/12/02 |
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If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised. -- Dorothy Parker. |
06/11/02 |
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. -- Voltaire. |
06/10/02 |
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I dote on his very absence. -- William Shakespeare. |
06/09/02 |
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Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a jelly doughnut). -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy, in West Berlin. |
06/08/02 |
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower. |
06/07/02 |
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Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo. -- Robert Byrne. |
06/06/02 |
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I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there. -- Herb Caen. |
06/05/02 |
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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson. |
06/04/02 |
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Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary. |
06/03/02 |
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary. |
06/02/02 |
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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development. -- Alice Roosevelt Longworth. |
06/01/02 |
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. -- H. L. Mencken. |
05/31/02 |
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. -- Robert Louis Stevenson. |
05/30/02 |
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We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. -- Thomas A. Edison. |
05/29/02 |
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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw. |
05/28/02 |
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It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. -- Jerome K. Jerome. |
05/27/02 |
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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves. -- Rudyard Kipling. |
05/26/02 |
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A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. -- Fred Allen. |
05/25/02 |
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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either. -- Dick Cavett. |
05/24/02 |
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Trying is the first step toward failure. -- Homer Simpson. |
05/23/02 |
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An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. -- John Buchan. |
05/22/02 |
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When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty.' -- Theodore Roosevelt. |
05/21/02 |
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If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. -- John Kenneth Galbraith. |
05/20/02 |
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. -- James Thurber. |
05/19/02 |
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If you cannot convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S Truman. |
05/18/02 |
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Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. -- Steven Wright. |
05/17/02 |
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I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away. -- Oscar Levant. |
05/16/02 |
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Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was. -- Margaret Mitchell. |
05/15/02 |
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I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. -- Jane Austen. |
05/14/02 |
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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. -- Oscar Levant. |
05/13/02 |
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Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something. -- Thomas A. Edison. |
05/12/02 |
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I don't even butter my bread. I consider that cooking. -- Katherine Cebrian. |
05/11/02 |
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The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. -- Douglas Adams. |
05/10/02 |
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A witty saying proves nothing. -- Voltaire. |
05/09/02 |
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It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children. -- Kingsley Amis. |
05/08/02 |
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try. -- Fran Lebowitz. |
05/07/02 |
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In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. -- Laurence J. Peter. |
05/06/02 |
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The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. -- Joe Ancis. |
05/05/02 |
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If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. -- Juan Ramon Jiminez. |
05/04/02 |
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Feelings are worth their weight in gold. -- Horace Aeiouaey, Jr. |
05/03/02 |
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Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good. -- Samuel Johnson. |
05/02/02 |
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. -- Lucille Ball. |
05/01/02 |
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Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad. -- Diogenes the Cynic. |
04-30-02 |
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Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long. -- Ogden Nash. |
04/29/02 |
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. -- Frank Lloyd Wright. |
04/28/02 |
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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. -- Garrison Keillor. |
04/27/02 |
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Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. -- Frank Leahy. |
04/26/02 |
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Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. -- W. C. Fields. |
04/25/02 |
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. -- Oscar Wilde. |
04/24/02 |
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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. -- Albert Schweitzer. |
04/23/02 |
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For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. -- Alice Kahn. |
04/22/02 |
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No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. -- Charles M. Schulz. |
04/21/02 |
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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody. -- Mark Twain. |
04/20/02 |
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Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch. -- W. C. Fields. |
04/19/02 |
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I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants. -- A. Whitney Brown. |
04/18/02 |
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Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money. -- Arthur Miller. |
04/17/02 |
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I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. -- Mark Twain. |
04/16/02 |
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Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. -- Fletcher Knebel. |
04/15/02 |
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Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. -- Samuel Goldwyn. |
04/14/02 |
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Never fight an inanimate object. -- P. J. O'Rourke. |
04/13/02 |
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw. |
04/12/02 |
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Ken Olson, President, Digital Equipment, 1977. |
04/11/02 |
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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected. -- Robert Orben. |
04/10/02 |
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Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. -- Jonathan Swift. |
04/09/02 |
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Those who do not learn from history are destined to become it. -- Horace Aeiouaey, Jr. |
04/08/02 |
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A lie told often enough becomes the truth. -- Vladimir I. Lenin. |
04/07/02 |
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson. |
04/06/02 |
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I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. -- Ronald Reagan. |
04/05/02 |
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. -- Galileo Galilei. |
04/04/02 |
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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting. -- David Letterman. |
04/03/02 |
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. -- Saint Augustine. |
04/02/02 |
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. -- Oscar Wilde. |
04/01/02 |
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The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. -- Dudley Moore. |
03/31/02 |
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I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. -- Elvis Presley. |
03/30/02 |
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal. |
03/29/02 |
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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -- Sir Winston Churchill. |
03/28/02 |
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I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. -- Samuel Johnson. |
03/27/02 |
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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. -- Mark Twain. |
03/26/02 |
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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. -- Napoleon Bonaparte. |
03/25/02 |
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The days of the digital watch are numbered. -- Tom Stoppard. |
03/24/02 |
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Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. -- Lillian Hellman. |
03/23/02 |
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What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement? -- Fred Allen. |
03/22/02 |
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The future is much like the present, only longer. -- Dan Quisenberry. |
03/21/02 |
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I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true. -- Dorothy Parker. |
03/20/02 |
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Living in a vacuum sucks. -- Adrienne E. Gusoff. |
03/19/02 |
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There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. -- Pablo Picasso. |
03/18/02 |
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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. -- Robert Frost. |
03/17/02 |
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Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have. -- Ernest Haskins. |
03/16/02 |
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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things. -- Bobby Knight. |
03/15/02 |
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Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. -- P. J. O'Rourke. |
03/14/02 |
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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw. |
03/13/02 |
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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. -- Mark Twain. |
03/12/02 |
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The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. -- Paul Fix. |
03/11/02 |
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Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another. -- H. L. Mencken. |
03/10/02 |
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Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel. -- Oscar Levant. |
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