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Queen Victoria"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons"
Woody Allen"A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done."
Dwight D. Eisenhower"We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable."
Hirohito"Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization."
Amelia Earhart"Never was so much owed by so many to so few."
Winston Churchill"Defeat? I do not recognize the meaning of the word."
Margaret Thatcher"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
Albert Einstein"Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included."
Karl Marx"There is flattery in friendship."
Shakespeare, Henry V"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."
Voltaire"If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love."
Maya AngelouSpeaking about skijumping: "If I had a daughter, I’d never let her jump — it’s too much hard labor. Women have another purpose — to have children, to do housework, to create hearth and home."
Russian ski jump coach Alexander Arefyev "With their bizarre shrubbery, the Beatles are obviously a press agent's dream combo. Not even their mothers would claim that they sing well. But the hirsute thickets they affect make them rememberable, and they project a certain kittenish charm which drives the immature, shall we say, ape."
Los Angels Times, Feb. 11, 1964 on the Beatles"We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty."
Mother Teresa"The greater the effort, the greater the glory."
Pierre Corneille"A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner."
Francis Bacon"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
Walt Disney"Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."
Helen Keller"The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none."
Charles Dickens"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."
Mark Twain"And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."
Friedrich Nietzsche"By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out."
Richard Dawkins"In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart."
LOL!!!Hilary Rodham Clinton
"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference."
Aristotle"Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes."
Maggie Kuhn“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
Charlotte Bronte (Jane Eyre)"3 May. Bistritz.-- Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late."
Jamie Lynn wrote: ""Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. I'm not sure about the universe." Albert Einstein."
Jamie Lynn, you seem to have posted a quote and answered it in the same post. The intent is that you answer who said the previous quote, "3 May ... etc" and then post your own quote.
Jamie Lynn wrote: "Richard wrote: "Jamie Lynn wrote: ""Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. I'm not sure about the universe." Albert Einstein."
Jamie Lynn, you seem to have posted a quote and..."
No worries. But please, if you can, feel free to answer the previous quote and set a new one.
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
William Butler Yeats"Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey, and reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important how we lived."
Jean Luke Picard--Star Trek"I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it."
W.C. Fields"I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her."
Ellen DegeneresLOVE this quote by the way.
"I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money."
Bob Hope"Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead."
Lucille Ball"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."
Orson Wells"Oompah oompah stick it up your jumper"
"I am the Walrus" by the Beatles"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
George Bernard Shaw"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee"
Muhand Ali
"I almost got my nose cut off. Now I like my nose I like breathing through it!"
"I almost got my nose cut off. Now I like my nose I like breathing through it!"
Chinatown? Guessing here"We were frightened of being left alone for the rest of our lives. Only people of a certain disposition are frightened of being alone for the rest of their lives at the age of 26...we were of that disposition."
Nick Hornby, High Fidelity"Excuse me stewardess, I speak jive."
Airplane and Chinatown is correct for the one I post earlier
"Blue suit, gray suit what difference does it make mom I'm ugly"
"You'll not ugly"
"I am mom I'm fat ugly old man"
"Marty"
"Mom leave me alone"
"Blue suit, gray suit what difference does it make mom I'm ugly"
"You'll not ugly"
"I am mom I'm fat ugly old man"
"Marty"
"Mom leave me alone"
Who is Ernest Borgnine, in "Marty""You finally really did it. You maniacs! You blew it up! God damn you! God damn you all to hell!"
Planet of the Apes--the one with Charles Heston"I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it."
W.C. Fields"We have always found the Irish to be a bit odd. They refuse to be English."
Winston Churchill. What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce."
Mark Twain"It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married."
Robert Frost"Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms."
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"For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous."