A "Women like silent men. They think they're listening." - Marcel Archard "Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius." - Henri-Frederic Amiel "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." - Neil Armstrong B "It is impossible to love and to be wise." -Francis Bacon "I'll come up and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me." - Tallulah Bankhead "Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world." - Dave Barry "Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils." -Hector Berlioz "An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field." - Niels Bohr "I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants." - A. Whitney Brown "Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair." George Burns "An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less." - Nicholas Murray Butler C "The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true." - James B. Cabell "It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies." - Arthur Calwell "An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought." - Simon Cameron "You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone." - Al Capone "If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt." - Thomas Carlyle "Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative." - Maurice Chevalier "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." - Chinese proverb "The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out." -Chinese Proverb "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." - Charles Caleb Colton "America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilisation." - Georges Clemenceau "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." -Confucius D "The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children." - Clarence Darrow "We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up." -Phyllis Diller E "We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it." - Dwight D.Eisenhower "What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog." - Dwight D. Eisenhower "Every man I meet is in some way my superior." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak." - Epictetus "There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me." - John Erskine "Millions long for immortality but do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." - Susan Ertz "Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish." - Euripides F "Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age" - William Feather "I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally." - W.C. Fields "In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes." - Benjamin Franklin G "Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory." - John Kenneth Galbraith "When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities." - Matt Groening "When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her." - Sacha Guitry H "What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary." - Richard Harkness "In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these." - Paul Harvey "Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women." - Katherine Hepburn "Love and a cough cannot be hid." - George Herbert "When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near." - Samuel Hoffenstein "Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men" - kin Hubbard "Behind every succesful man stand a surprised mother-in-law." - Hubert Humphrey "Maybe this world is another planet's Hell." - Aldous Huxley "Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you." - Aldous Huxley J "Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age." - Pope John XXIII "Don't do today what you can put off till tomorrow" - Joakim Jonsson K "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." - Robert F. Kennedy "Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers." - Nikita Krustjev "Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win." - Jonathan Kozol L "It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it." -Robert E. Lee "The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him." -Claude Levi-Strauss M "In war there is no substitute for victory." - General Douglas MacArthur "Religion... is the opium of the masses." - Karl Marx "Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence." - H. L. Mencken "When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research" - Wilson Mizner "The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them." - Gunnar Myrdal N "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." - Napoleon "In politics stupidity is not a handicap." - Napoleon "History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon." - Napoleon "Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets." - Ogden Nash "Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote." - George Jean Nathan "England expects every man to do his duty." - Lord Nelson "What does not destroy me, makes me strong." - Friedrich Nietzsche "A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder." - Chester Nimitz O "On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time." - George Orwell "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." - George Orwell P "An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today." - Laurence J. Peter "Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it." - Laurance Peter "Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true." -Polish proverb "One lives in the hope of becoming a memory." - Antonio Porchia "They talk most who have the least to say." - Mathew Prior "A city is a large community where people are lonesome together." - Herbert Prochnow Q "I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people." - J. Danforth Quayle R "A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year. "- Dixy Lee Ray "Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book." - Ronald Reagan "Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties." - Jules Renard "The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe." - Frank Rizzo "We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by." - Will Rogers "People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little." - Jean Jacques Rousseau "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 S "There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved." - George Sand "A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world." - George Santayana "When the rich make war it's the poor that die." - Jean-Paul Sartre "Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't" - Pete Seeger "A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." - Josef Stalin T "The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread." - Mother Teresa "If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?" - Lily Tomlin "Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets." - Paul Tournier "If you can't convince them, confuse them." - Harry S. Truman "It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own." - Harry S. Truman "A succesful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A succesful woman is one who can find such a man." - Lana Turner "Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to". - Mark Twain "Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven." - Mark Twain "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." - Mark Twain W "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." - Oscar Wilde "A cynic is a person who knows the prize of everything and the value of nothing" - Oscar Wilde "The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years" - Oscar Wilde "Only the winners decide what were war crimes." - Gary Wills Z "It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" - Emiliano Zapata
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