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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
After I die, wherever my spirit goes, I'm going to try to get back and visit my skeleton at least once a year, because, 'Hey, old buddy, how's it going'
Mark Twain
Youth, large, lusty, loving- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination
Jean Nathan Miller
The best advice one can offer to both press and public is the suggestion Ronald Reagan himself gave to students in Chicago ... Don't let me get away with it. Check me out. Don't be the sucker generation.
Al Franken
It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
Norman O. Brown
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known -- that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
Dave Barry
Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.
Sacha Guitry
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
CaddyShack
Al Czervik Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it.
Plato
Thinking The talking of the soul with itself.
Alexis DeTocqueville
This Rock has become an object of veneration in the United States. I have seen bits of it carefully preserved in several towns in the Union. Does this sufficiently show that all human power and greatness is in the soul of man? Here is a stone which the feet of a few outcasts pressed for an instant; and the stone becomes famous; it is treasured by a great nation; its very dust is shared as a relic.
Elisabeth Marbury
The richer your friends, the more they will cost you.
William Ellery Channing
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aidthem to judge for themselves.
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Lesson Quotes
Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:36:00 +0000
When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. - Phyllis Bottome
If someone breaks your heart, forgive them. For they have helped you ...]
Month Quotes
Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:23:00 +0000
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
…simple fact that any land looks like Eden after months at sea. - Robert Hughes, Fatal Shore
I’m 65 and I guess that puts me in with ...]
6 Singular Quotes
Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:58:00 +0000
I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. . . But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is ...]
Quotes about Reach
Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:17:00 +0000
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. - Helen Keller
If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love’s reach. - Margaret Cho
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that ...]
Quotes about Architecture
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:02:00 +0000
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, High-Tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit-if totally different in form-from all the romantic architecture of ...]
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