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10/28/06 |
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. -- Anatole France. |
10/27/06 |
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. -- William Wrigley Jr. |
10/26/06 |
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Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age. -- William Feather. |
10/25/06 |
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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. -- John Berry. |
10/24/06 |
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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. -- Jean Paul Richter. |
10/23/06 |
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The least of learning is done in the classrooms. -- Thomas Merton. |
10/22/06 |
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. -- Bertrand Russell. |
10/21/06 |
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Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. -- Barry Switzer. |
10/20/06 |
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My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. -- Penn Jillette. |
10/19/06 |
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The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. -- Peter Ustinov. |
10/18/06 |
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Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature. -- Kin Hubbard. |
10/17/06 |
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They always talk who never think. -- Matthew Prior. |
10/16/06 |
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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. -- Jean Rostand. |
10/15/06 |
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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. -- Fran Lebowitz. |
10/14/06 |
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. -- Woodrow Wilson. |
10/13/06 |
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His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork. -- Mae West. |
10/12/06 |
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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. -- Bertrand Russell. |
10/11/06 |
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I like rice. Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2000 of something. -- Mitch Hedberg. |
10/10/06 |
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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. -- Leonardo da Vinci. |
10/09/06 |
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No wise man ever wished to be younger. -- Jonathan Swift. |
10/08/06 |
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The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible. -- George Burns. |
10/07/06 |
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Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months. -- Bill Tammeus. |
10/06/06 |
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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. -- James M. Barrie. |
10/05/06 |
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The problem with political jokes is they get elected. -- Henry Cate VII. |
10/04/06 |
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time. -- Honore de Balzac. |
10/03/06 |
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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. -- Norman Douglas. |
10/02/06 |
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Where facts are few, experts are many. -- Donald R. Gannon. |
10/01/06 |
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What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do. -- John Ruskin. |
09/30/06 |
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Never eat more than you can lift. -- Miss Piggy. |
09/29/06 |
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Virtue is its own punishment. -- Aneurin Bevan. |
09/28/06 |
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. -- Jane Austen. |
09/27/06 |
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In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -- Paul Dirac. |
09/26/06 |
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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. -- Friedrich Nietzsche. |
09/25/06 |
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. -- Hermann Hesse. |
09/24/06 |
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Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. -- Mark Twain. |
09/23/06 |
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. -- Sir Francis Bacon. |
09/22/06 |
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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it. -- Doris Day. |
09/21/06 |
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There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. -- Albert Camus. |
09/20/06 |
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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin. |
09/19/06 |
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Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. -- Cary Grant. |
09/18/06 |
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. -- Warren Beatty. |
09/17/06 |
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Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. -- Woody Allen. |
09/16/06 |
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My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was. -- Rodney Dangerfield. |
09/15/06 |
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. -- Oscar Wilde. |
09/14/06 |
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. -- A. J. Liebling. |
09/13/06 |
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We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. -- Frank Tibolt. |
09/12/06 |
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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. -- Voltaire. |
09/11/06 |
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All things are difficult before they are easy. -- Dr. Thomas Fuller. |
09/10/06 |
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Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. -- Billy Wilder. |
09/09/06 |
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Give a man a fire and keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for rest of his life. -- Terry Pratchett. |
09/08/06 |
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley. |
09/06/06 |
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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. -- Samuel Johnson. |
09/05/06 |
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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. -- Lester B. Pearson. |
09/04/06 |
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -- e e cummings. |
09/03/06 |
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A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. -- Gian Vincenzo Gravina. |
09/02/06 |
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Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen. -- Ambrose Bierce. |
09/01/06 |
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Never tell anyone that you're: writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death. -- Lynn Johnston. |
08/31/06 |
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If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer? -- Steven Wright. |
08/30/06 |
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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. -- George Santayana. |
08/29/06 |
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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. -- Oscar Wilde. |
08/28/06 |
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain. -- Pliny the Elder. |
08/27/06 |
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There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. -- W. Somerset Maugham. |
08/26/06 |
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It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them. -- Dame Rose Macaulay. |
08/25/06 |
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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. -- George Orwell. |
08/24/06 |
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. -- Dr. Seuss. |
08/23/06 |
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As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. -- Samuel Johnson. |
08/22/06 |
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The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block. -- Inigo DeLeon. |
08/21/06 |
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Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty. -- Leo Rosten. |
08/20/06 |
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He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed. -- David Frost. |
08/19/06 |
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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. -- Mark Twain. |
08/18/06 |
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Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better. -- Laurie Anderson. |
08/17/06 |
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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. -- Virginia Woolf. |
08/16/06 |
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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. -- Henry Fielding. |
08/15/06 |
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Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. -- Lillian Hellman. |
08/14/06 |
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -- Thomas A. Edison. |
08/13/06 |
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Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. -- Ann Landers. |
08/12/06 |
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Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. -- Norm Papernick. |
08/11/06 |
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On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away. -- Tom Lehrer. |
08/10/06 |
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Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. -- Eric Hoffer. |
08/09/06 |
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -- Alan Kay. |
08/08/06 |
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In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. -- George Orwell. |
08/07/06 |
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. -- George Bernard Shaw. |
08/06/06 |
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In heaven all the interesting people are missing. -- Friedrich Nietzsche. |
08/05/06 |
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The gods too are fond of a joke. -- Aristotle. |
08/04/06 |
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Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to. -- Mark Twain. |
08/03/06 |
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We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know. -- W. H. Auden. |
08/02/06 |
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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. -- Lynda Barry. |
08/01/06 |
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We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society. -- Judith Martin (Miss Manners). |
07/31/06 |
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Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. -- Walter Lippmann. |
07/30/06 |
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Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something. -- Thomas A. Edison. |
07/29/06 |
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It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.' -- Sam Levenson. |
07/28/06 |
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It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. -- P. G. Wodehouse. |
07/27/06 |
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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough. -- Thomas Fuller. |
07/26/06 |
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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. |
07/25/06 |
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A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions. -- Wilson Mizner. |
07/24/06 |
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail. -- Fran Lebowitz. |
07/23/06 |
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All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. -- James Thurber. |
07/22/06 |
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. -- Soren Kierkegaard. |
07/21/06 |
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The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. -- Doug Larson. |
07/20/06 |
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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. -- Shana Alexander. |
07/19/06 |
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My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers. -- Woody Allen. |
07/18/06 |
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. -- Arthur Schopenhauer. |
07/17/06 |
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But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. -- Benjamin Franklin. |
07/16/06 |
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld. |
07/15/06 |
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Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers. -- Jimmy Breslin. |
07/14/06 |
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In the end, everything is a gag. -- Charlie Chaplin. |
07/13/06 |
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Music is essentially useless, as life is. -- George Santayana. |
07/12/06 |
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets. -- Mel Brooks. |
07/11/06 |
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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. -- Malcolm Forbes. |
07/10/06 |
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People want economy and they will pay any price to get it. -- Lee Iacocca. |
07/09/06 |
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What's another word for Thesaurus? -- Steven Wright. |
07/08/06 |
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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. -- George Bernard Shaw. |
07/07/06 |
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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself. -- Thomas Mann. |
07/06/06 |
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There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. -- Don Herold. |
07/05/06 |
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. -- Samuel Johnson. |
07/04/06 |
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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. |
07/03/06 |
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You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. -- Fred Allen. |
07/02/06 |
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There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey. -- John Ruskin. |
07/01/06 |
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About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. -- Herbert Hoover. |
06/30/06 |
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. -- Alfred Hitchcock. |
06/29/06 |
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If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. -- Mark Twain. |
06/28/06 |
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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. |
06/27/06 |
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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. -- Edward Abbey. |
06/26/06 |
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. -- Thomas Jefferson. |
06/25/06 |
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I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. -- Woody Allen. |
06/24/06 |
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To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. -- Albert Einstein. |
06/23/06 |
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It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth. -- George Burns. |
06/22/06 |
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If God had wanted us to vote, He would have given us candidates. -- Jay Leno. |
06/21/06 |
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I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks. -- Totie Fields. |
06/20/06 |
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Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. -- H. L. Mencken. |
06/19/06 |
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The report of my death was an exaggeration. -- Mark Twain. |
06/18/06 |
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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault. -- Henry Kissinger. |
06/17/06 |
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The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them. -- Samuel McChord Crothers. |
06/16/06 |
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Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles. -- Pat Paulsen. |
06/15/06 |
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I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places. -- Henny Youngman. |
06/14/06 |
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There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. -- Steven Wright. |
06/13/06 |
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I don't even butter my bread. I consider that cooking. -- Katherine Cebrian. |
06/12/06 |
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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein. |
06/11/06 |
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact. -- Jean-Paul Sartre. |
06/10/06 |
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No human thing is of serious importance. -- Plato. |
06/09/06 |
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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. |
06/08/06 |
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Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. -- Will Rogers. |
06/07/06 |
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All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable. -- Fran Lebowitz. |
06/06/06 |
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We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming. -- Don Delillo. |
06/05/06 |
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A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. -- James Feibleman. |
06/04/06 |
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. -- Napoleon Bonaparte. |
06/03/06 |
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One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. -- Andrew Carnegie. |
06/02/06 |
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A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. -- Bob Hope. |
06/01/06 |
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld. |
05/31/06 |
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The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible. -- George Burns. |
05/30/06 |
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Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. -- Phyllis Diller. |
05/29/06 |
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary. -- James Madison. |
05/28/06 |
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Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view. -- Lillian Hellman. |
05/27/06 |
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it. -- Upton Sinclair. |
05/26/06 |
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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. -- Honore de Balzac. |
05/25/06 |
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The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass. -- Martin Mull. |
05/24/06 |
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You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. -- Dave Barry. |
05/23/06 |
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This is like deja vu all over again. -- Yogi Berra. |
05/22/06 |
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There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. -- William James. |
05/21/06 |
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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. |
05/20/06 |
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. -- Edmund Burke. |
05/19/06 |
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None are so busy as the fool and knave. -- John Dryden, 1682. |
05/18/06 |
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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. -- A. A. Milne. |
05/17/06 |
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Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. -- Groucho Marx. |
05/16/06 |
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If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. -- John Kenneth Galbraith. |
05/15/06 |
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The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. -- William H. Borah. |
05/14/06 |
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By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece. -- G. K. Chesterton. |
05/13/06 |
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Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink. -- P. J. O'Rourke. |
05/12/06 |
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You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon. |
05/11/06 |
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I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. -- Pablo Picasso. |
05/10/06 |
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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -- Arthur Schopenhauer. |
05/09/06 |
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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. -- Christopher Morley. |
05/08/06 |
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A poem is no place for an idea. -- Edgar Watson Howe. |
05/07/08 |
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone? -- James Thurber. |
05/06/06 |
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Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. -- Alfred Hitchcock. |
05/05/06 |
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Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. -- Robert Heinlein. |
05/04/06 |
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It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. -- William G. McAdoo. |
05/03/06 |
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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. -- George Burns. |
05/02/06 |
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He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. -- Abraham Lincoln. |
05/01/06 |
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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. -- George Orwell. |
04/30/06 |
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. -- Samuel Butler. |
04/29/06 |
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By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. -- Charles Wadsworth. |
04/28/06 |
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Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. |
04/27/06 |
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Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual. -- Terry Pratchett. |
04/26/06 |
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In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. -- John Adams. |
04/25/06 |
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A cult is a religion with no political power. -- Tom Wolfe. |
04/24/06 |
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Weather forcast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning. -- George Carlin. |
04/23/06 |
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Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps. -- Emo Phillips. |
04/22/06 |
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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. |
04/21/06 |
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A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people. -- Peter McArthur. |
04/20/06 |
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Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night. -- Philip K. Dick. |
04/19/06 |
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Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality. -- George Santayana. |
04/18/06 |
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. -- Benjamin Disraeli. |
04/17/05 |
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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. -- Peter Drucker. |
04/16/06 |
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Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. -- H. L. Mencken. |
04/15/06 |
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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. -- H. P. Lovecraft. |
04/14/06 |
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The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it. -- Patrick Young. |
04/13/06 |
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I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine. -- Rita Rudner. |
04/12/06 |
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. -- W. H. Auden. |
04/11/06 |
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror. -- Oscar Wilde. |
04/10/06 |
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Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators. -- Will Rogers. |
04/09/06 |
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Life is a long lesson in humility. -- James M. Barrie. |
04/08/06 |
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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -- William Goldman. |
04/07/06 |
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When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. -- William Hazlitt. |
04/06/06 |
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Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. -- Niels Bohr. |
04/05/06 |
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Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. -- Thomas H. Huxley. |
04/04/06 |
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. -- Anatole France. |
04/03/06 |
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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. |
04/02/06 |
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Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was. -- Margaret Mitchell. |
04/01/06 |
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures. -- Oscar Wilde. |
03/31/06 |
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. -- Sir Winston Churchill. |
03/30/06 |
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Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. -- Floyd Dell. |
03/29/06 |
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. -- Samuel Butler. |
03/28/06 |
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Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content. -- Louis L'Amour. |
03/27/06 |
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Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised. -- Marilyn Manson. |
03/26/06 |
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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. |
03/25/06 |
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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. -- Isaac Asimov. |
03/24/06 |
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There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. -- Fred Hoyle. |
03/23/06 |
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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. -- Voltaire. |
03/22/06 |
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One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing. -- Oscar Wilde. |
03/21/06 |
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When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong - or absolutely right. -- Albert Guinon. |
03/20/06 |
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. -- Abba Eban. |
03/19/06 |
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Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance. -- William Shakespeare. |
03/18/06 |
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Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence. -- Henrik Tikkanen. |
03/17/06 |
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At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies. -- P. G. Wodehouse. |
03/16/06 |
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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy. -- Richard Feynman. |
03/15/06 |
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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. -- Douglas Adams. |
03/14/06 |
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When you come to a fork in the road, take it. -- Yogi Berra. |
03/13/06 |
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I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts. -- Mark Twain. |
03/12/06 |
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The multitude of books is making us ignorant. -- Voltaire. |
03/11/06 |
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There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. -- Will Rogers. |
03/10/06 |
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. |
03/09/06 |
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I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out. -- Rodney Dangerfield. |
03/08/06 |
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The world only goes round by misunderstanding. -- Charles Baudelaire. |
03/07/06 |
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A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures. -- Daniel Webster. |
03/06/06 |
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All phone calls are obscene. -- Karen Elizabeth Gordon. |
03/05/06 |
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The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. -- Horace Walpole. |
03/04/06 |
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Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy. -- Charles Peters. |
03/03/06 |
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Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space. -- Douglas Adams. |
03/02/06 |
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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's. -- Oscar Wilde. |
03/01/06 |
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There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. -- Clint Eastwood. |
02/28/06 |
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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it. -- Doris Day. |
02/27/06 |
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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. -- Frank Zappa. |
02/26/06 |
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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away. -- Sir Thomas Beecham. |
02/25/06 |
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An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. -- Henry Ford. |
02/24/06 |
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Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain. |
02/23/06 |
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. -- Samuel Johnson. |
02/22/06 |
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Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be. -- Rita Rudner. |
02/21/06 |
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There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it. -- Cicero. |
02/20/06 |
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Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place. -- Billy Crystal. |
02/19/06 |
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When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained. -- Edward R. Murrow. |
02/18/06 |
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It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. -- Douglas Adams. |
02/17/06 |
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I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks. -- Steve Martin. |
02/16/06 |
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Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people. -- Adrian Mitchell. |
02/15/06 |
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What's another word for Thesaurus? -- Steven Wright. |
02/14/06 |
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Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -- Aldous Huxley. |
02/13/06 |
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If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? -- Laurence J. Peter. |
02/12/06 |
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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. |
02/11/06 |
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I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect. -- George Burns. |
02/10/06 |
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A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. -- Herman Melville. |
02/09/06 |
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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. -- Bertrand Russell. |
02/08/06 |
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Life is a zoo in a jungle. -- Peter De Vries. |
02/07/06 |
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. -- Seneca. |
02/06/06 |
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My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. -- Rodney Dangerfield. |
02/05/06 |
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Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it. -- Cullen Hightower. |
02/04/06 |
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There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead. -- Arthur Honegger. |
02/03/06 |
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The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. -- Hunter S. Thompson. |
02/02/06 |
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Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy. -- Robert Anthony. |
02/01/06 |
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Never judge a book by its movie. -- J. W. Eagan. |
01/31/06 |
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I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it. -- G. K. Chesterton. |
01/30/06 |
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I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends. -- Moby. |
01/29/06 |
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With stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich von Schiller. |
01/28/06 |
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You know you’ve achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery. |
01/27/06 |
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Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. -- George Bernard Shaw. |
01/26/06 |
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Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. -- Fran Lebowitz. |
01/25/06 |
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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. -- Peter Drucker. |
01/24/06 |
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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. -- Kin Hubbard. |
01/23/06 |
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Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. -- Michael Crichton. |
01/22/06 |
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Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice. -- George Jackson. |
01/21/06 |
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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. -- Cyril Connolly. |
01/20/06 |
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Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. -- Eugene McCarthy. |
01/19/06 |
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If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt. -- Dean Martin. |
01/18/06 |
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In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language. -- Mark Twain. |
01/17/06 |
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The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. -- Horace Walpole. |
01/16/06 |
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As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did. -- Robert Benchley. |
01/15/06 |
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. -- George Bernard Shaw. |
01/14/06 |
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An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. -- Charles F. Kettering. |
01/13/06 |
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No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin. |
01/12/06 |
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I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. -- Groucho Marx. |
01/11/06 |
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The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. -- Helen Rowland. |
01/10/06 |
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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. |
01/09/06 |
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'Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college. -- George Ade. |
01/08/06 |
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The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. -- Kin Hubbard. |
01/07/06 |
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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. -- Bill Cosby. |
01/06/06 |
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You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. -- Ray Bradbury. |
01/05/06 |
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The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it. -- Warren Buffett. |
01/04/06 |
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My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head. -- Rita Rudner. |
01/03/06 |
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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. |
01/02/06 |
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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. -- Norman Douglas. |
01/01/06 |
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Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. -- Mark Twain. |