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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

Aug

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"Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive." ­ Lytton

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and
deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without
thunder and lightning.

Frederick Douglass (1817-1895)

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get  
permission. ~ Admiral Grace Hopper 
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you  
reach eighteen. 

I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six
days. Even the Almighty took seven.

Winston Churchill (20)

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself.

Mark Twain (35)

 If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without  
you. ­ Winnie the Pooh

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants. ~ Isaac  
Newton

Before God we are all equally wise ­ and equally foolish. 

 "Distance between two hearts is not an obstacle...rather a beautiful reminder of just how strong true  
love can be."
June

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.
- PJ O'Rourke

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.


- Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
- WH Auden

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.


- Mo Udall

Communism is like one big phone company.


- Lenny Bruce

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.


- Augusten Burroughs

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a
goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
- Arnold Toynbee

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is
Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
- Ted Morgan

"If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear the pain of loss, then our
lives will be empty, our loss greater." Tanis HalfElven from the Dragonlance saga
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
- Voltaire

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.


- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.


- Dan Quayle

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

- Jerome K. Jerome

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

- Philip Guedalla

July

Religion is like a nail: the harder you hit it, the deeper it goes in. Our efforts should have been directed
toward drawing it out.

— Anatoly Lunacharsky, Commissar of Enlightenment

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to
worship. — The Grand Inquisitor in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov

Nothing says, 'I have no idea what to get you,' quite like giant beige bath towels.
- Missbhavens
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
- Sophocles

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
- Cullen Hightower

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely
governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
- Clive Barnes

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.


- Henry Kissinger

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the
greatest threat to liberty.
- Eugene McCarthy

Equations are the devil's sentences.


- Stephen Colbert

An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.
- Benjamin Stolberg

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely
governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
- Clive Barnes

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.


- Wernher von Braun

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
- Michel de Montaigne

Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.
- Laurence J. Peter
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the
greatest threat to liberty.
- Eugene McCarthy

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain

Nothing says, 'I have no idea what to get you,' quite like giant beige bath towels.
- Missbhavens

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