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Sunday, 02 October 2005 18:52 |
- Sincerity is the key. If you can fake that, you've got it made. - George Burns
- I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. - Orson Welles
- My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot. - Ashleigh Brilliant
- I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve immortality by not dying. - Woody Allen
- The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. (Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 B.C.)
- When I was born I was so surprised I couldn't talk for a year and a half. - Gracie Allen
- They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist... - General John Sedgwick, Union commander in the Civil War, speaking his last words as he was watching enemy troops during the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House.
- We the unwilling, led by the unknowing have been doing the difficult with little for so long that we are now ready to tackle the impossible with nothing. -- Local Fire communications reserve volunteer motto
- I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either. - Scott Adams
- People never grow up, they just learn how to act in public. - Bryan White
- Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I'm halfway through my fish-burger and I realise that I could be eating a slow learner. - Lynda Montgomery
- Men don't care what's on TV. They care about what else is on TV. - Jerry Seinfeld
- I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the planet. That may be. But I think there's one other thing that separates us from animals. We aren't afraid of vacuum cleaners. - Jeff Stilsont
- Nothing that results from human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. And those who are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of others. - Christopher Columbus
- A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. - Robert Frost
- I had a lovely evening. Unfortunately, this wasn't it. - Groucho Marx
- I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting to get into the bathroom. -- Bob Hope
- Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as it nothing had happened - Winston Churchill
- I no longer wish to belong to the kind of club that accepts people like me as members - Groucho Marx
- A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. - Zsa Zsa Gabor
- Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. - Oscar Wilde
- And if you give us any more trouble, I shall visit you in the small hours and put a bat up your night-dress. - Basil Fawlty
- Justice will only be achieved when those who are not injured by crime feel as indignant as those who are. - King Solomon
- Times fun when you're having flies ~ Kermit the Frog
- I'm afraid of the dark, and suspicious of the light. - Woody Allen
- Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. - Mark Twain
- There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more. - Woody Allen
- There is a very fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. - Oscar Levant
- Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy. - Peter De Vries
- Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks. - Ernest Hemingway
- Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving words in evidence of the fact. - George Elliot
- Children should neither be seen nor heard from... ever again. - W. C. Fields
- There are two kinds of people in this world, and I am one of them. - Dave Barry
- Failure is not falling down, it is not getting up again. Mary Pickford
- Millions yearn for immorality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. - Susan Ertz
- A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright
- Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. - Gandhi
- Life is like a box of chocolates...a cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable, because all you get back is another box of chocolates. You're stuck with this undefinable whipped-mint stuff that you mindlessly wolf down when there's nothing else left to eat. Sure, once in a while, there's a peanut butter cup, or an English toffee. But they're gone too fast, and the taste is fleeting. So you end up with broken bits, filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts, and if you're desperate enough to eat those, all you've got left is a...is an empty box...filled with useless, brown paper wrappers. - 'Musings of the Cigarette-Smoking Man, The X-Files
- The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. -- Robert Cromier
- The trouble with work is that it interferes with living. - Peter Mckill 1968
- Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool.
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