Thursday, January 06, 2005

For the sake of amusement

“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
- Gandhi

“I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.”
- G.K. Chesterton

“All things good to know are difficult to learn.”
- Greek Proverb

“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
- Kierkegaard

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
- Tom Clancy

“He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.”
- Samuel Smiles

“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”
- Nelson Mandela

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
- Oscar Wilde

“When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.”
- Gertrude Stein

“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.”
- Erica Jong

“A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.”
- Mae West

“The only sure cure for a hangover is to stay drunk.”
- W.G.P.

"No one has skin that is exactly the same colour as a Band-Aid."
- Author unknown

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