| "I drink to make other people interesting." - George Jean Nathan "I thought you wanted to do a GOOD play. If you wanted to do a bad play, we could just do RENT!" - The Family Guy "A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men." - Roald Dahl, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory "Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat." - Sir Julian Huxley "Thought: Why does a man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage." - Woody Allen "Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons." - Woody Allen "The trouble with normal is it always gets worse." - Bruce Cockburn "Everything has been figured out except how to live." - Jean-Paul Sartre "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true." - Irving Caesar "The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." - Lily Tomlin "The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth." - Edith Sitwell "I'm still an atheist, thank God." - Luis Bunuel "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper." - Robert Frost "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle "I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it." - Sir Laurence Olivier "When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other." - Eric Hoffer "Some people make things happen, some watch while things happen, and some wonder, 'What happened?'" -Unknown "It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us." -Peter De Vries "The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong." - Carl Jung "Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal." - Albert Camus "The cat could very well be man's best friend, but would never stoop to admitting it." - Doug Larson "Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong." - Dandemis "A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular." - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. "Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics." - Fletcher Knebel "The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever." -Herb Caen "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein "Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come." - Carl Sandburg "Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." - Frank Zappa "What if this weren't a hypothetical question?" - Unknown "Reality is nothing but a collective hunch." - Lily Tomlin "Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you." - C.G. Jung "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." - Aldous Huxley "If there is no god, who pops up the next Kleenex?" - Art Hoppe "Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function." - Unknown "Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor." - Wernher von Braun "Conservative: One who admires radicals centuries after they're dead." - Leo C. Rosten "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 "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." - Mark Twain "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard Feynman "What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement?" - Fred Allen "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick "He's the kind of guy who lights up a room just by flicking a switch." - Unknown "Men who never get carried away should be." - Malcolm Forbes "Instant gratification takes too long." - Carrie Fisher "Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember." - Oscar Levant "Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives." - William Dement "It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them." - Caron de Beaumarchais "We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people." -Arthur Schopenhauer "Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs." - P.J. O'Rourke "Most conversations are simply monologues delievered in the presence of witnesses." - Margaret Millar "In a mad world only the mad are sane." - Akira Kurosawa "There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congess." - Mark Twain "I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." - Solomon Short "I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it." - Steven Wright "Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things." - Dan Quayle "Good conversations are as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after." - Unknown "Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?" - Francois de La Rochefoucauld "I don't take drugs, I am drugs." - Salvador Dali |
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