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Where there is great love, there are always wishes.-- Willa Cather
I want to die like my grandfather, peaceful and in my sleep - not screaming like the other people in the car.
'Impossible' tends to be an opinion rather than a fact.
Descartes described how his father taught him how to swim by throwing him into the Seine: "I sink, therefore I swam."
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy
Cat: Ethereal music wreathed in mystery.
Ponder: "It's all done by magic, Archchancellor."
Ridcully: "Ah. Right. None of that complicated business with springs and cogwheels and tubes and stuff, then."
Ponder: "That's right, sir. Just magic. Sufficiently advanced magic."-- Terry Pratchett (Hogfather)
Erotic is when you use a feather. Kinky is when you use the whole chicken.
Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.-- Mark Twain
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.-- John Cleese
Please storyteller, pull a tale from your pocket,
Spin me a story from your coat-tails so bare,
For my heart has turned cold, and my dreams are too old,
And I need to know the magic's still there-- Heather Alexander (Storyteller)
"The biggest disease today isn't leprosy or tuberculosis, but the feeling of being unwanted."-- Mother Theresa
Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.-- Emo Philips
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
"I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that He was indifferent."-- George Sand
Most people deserve each other.
The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something better.-- Edsger Dijkstra
I told my girlfriend last night how much I loved her, and she said that I must have been out drinking again. I asked her why she would say that, and she said, 'Because I'm your father.'-- Dave George
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts — for support rather than illumination.-- Andrew Lang
"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy."-- Robert Anthony
The poor little wooden boy could only sit helplessly and watch while the old puppet maker, his father, whom he had just told how a nice fairy had turned him into a living boy, worked on a life-sized puppet of a young woman with big hooters.
There must be more to life than sitting there wondering if there is more to life.
"Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim."-- Bertrand Russell
...as opposed to Xena's paradox, which is, "How exactly can she fight in that leather outfit, and leave all of that flesh exposed, and survive?"
Do unto others before they undo you.
“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”-- Anais Nin
There's a nut loose on your keyboard.
The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows that the average man can see much better than he can think. (Ladies' Home Journal)
"Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say "Trust me" they're actually being very unamerican."-- David Duchovny (X Files)
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by somebody I do not know.-- John Keats
I pity you if you feel that the 'support' of such fair-weather 'friends' is more important than self-respect. Such friends offer no support, but rather slavery in a different cell: that of their approval.-- Clay Bond
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.-- Robert Frost
"Doing what we please is not freedom, is not liberty; rather, it is the abuse of true liberty and freedom."-- Cardinal Hayes
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.-- Tommy Smothers