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- From the
- JOKIN' AROUND AGAIN DISK
- by
- LEEJAN ENTERPRISES
- P.O. Box 66. Happy Valley.
- South Australia. 5159.
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-
- It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
- *
- Everything is controlled by a small evil group to which, unfortunately,
- no one we know belongs.
- *
- All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
- *
- If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
- *
- Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.
- *
- There has been an alarming increase in the number of things you know
- nothing about.
- *
- What makes the universe so hard to comprehend is that there's nothing
- to compare it with.
- *
- It may be that your whole purpose in life is simply to serve as a
- warning to others.
- *
- To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and, whatever you hit,
- call it the target.
- *
- If only I could be respected without having to be respectable.
- *
- Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
- *
- The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important
- point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly
- important thing to people.
- *
- "If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."
- *
- Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
- *
- The cost of living is going up, and the chance of living is going
- down.
- *
- We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
- *
- I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
- *
- Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
- *
- *
- Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still
- be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
- *
- If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car
- payments.
- *
- The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
- *
- Where humor is concerned there are no standards -- no one can say what
- is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.
- *
- TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
- *
- He who attacks the fundamentals of the American broadcasting industry
- attacks democracy itself.
- *
- Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
- *
- You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable
- doubt.
- *
- If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest
- shopping center in the world?
- *
- If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.
- *
- AMAZING BUT TRUE...
- There is so much sand in Northern Africa that if it were spread out it
- would completely cover the Sahara Desert.
- *
- Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no
- account be allowed to do the job.
- *
- With a rubber duck, one's never alone.
- *
- A nuclear war can ruin your whole day.
- *
- SOFTWARE -- formal evening attire for female computer analysts.
- *
- Today is National Existential Ennui Awareness Day.
- *
- In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to
- drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at
- discotheques.
- *
- Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
- *
- The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and
- religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging
- from the unorthodox to the dotty, that we can hardly wonder at its
- yielding a more bounteous harvest of gobbledegook than the rest of the
- world put together.
- *
- The fortune program is supported, in part, by user contributions and by
- a major grant from the National Endowment for the Inanities.
- *
- Flon's Law:
- There is not now, and never will be, a language in which it is
- the least bit difficult to write bad programs.
- *
- I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.
- *
- "The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity
- that would be clearly understood."
- *
- This life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been an actual life,
- you would have received further instructions as to what to do and where
- to go.
- *
- To YOU I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
- *
- "Earth is a great funhouse without the fun."
- *
- Cocaine -- the thinking man's Dristan.
- *
- This is National Non-Dairy Creamer Week.
- *
- When in doubt, do what the President does -- guess.
- *
- THIS IS PLEDGE WEEK FOR THE FORTUNE PROGRAM
- *
- Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
- *
- Q: How many IBM CPU's does it take to execute a job?
- A: Four; three to hold it down, and one to rip its head off.
- *
- SEMINARS: From 'semi' and 'arse', hence, any half-assed discussion.
- *
- POLITICIAN: From the Greek 'poly' ("many") and the French 'tete'
- ("head" or "face," as in 'tete-a-tete': head to head or face to face).
- Hence 'polytetien', a person of two or more faces.
- CALIFORNIA: From Latin 'calor', meaning "heat" (as in English
- 'calorie' or Spanish 'caliente'); and 'fornia', for "sexual
- intercourse" or "fornication." Hence: Tierra de California, "the land
- of hot sex."
- ETYMOLOGY: Some early etymological scholars come up with derivations
- that were hard for the public to believe. The term 'etymology' was
- formed from the Latin 'etus' ("eaten"), the root 'mal' ("bad"), and
- 'logy' ("study of"). It meant "the study of things that are hard to
- swallow."
- *
- Another Glitch in the Call
- ------- ------ -- --- ----
- (Sung to the tune of a recent Pink Floyd song.)
- *
- We don't need no indirection
- We don't need no flow control
- No data typing or declarations
- Did you leave the lists alone?
- *
- Hey! Hacker! Leave those lists alone!
- *
- Chorus:
- All in all, it's just a pure-LISP function call.
- All in all, it's just a pure-LISP function call.
- *
- Armadillo: to provide weapons to a Spanish pickle
- *
- Micro Credo: Never trust a computer bigger than you can lift.
- *
- "Nondeterminism means never having to say you are wrong."
- *
- Bumper sticker:
- *
- "All the parts falling off this car are of the very finest British
- manufacture"
- "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
- "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat
- *
- I'm not under the alkafluence of inkahol that some thinkle peep I am.
- It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get.
- Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the
- Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
- Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an
- utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life
- forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches
- are a pretty neat idea...
- *
- Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to
- point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very
- fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are
- often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people
- from point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point B
- that so many people from point B are so keen to get THERE. They often
- wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell
- they wanted to be.
- *
- Serocki's Stricture:
- Marriage is always a bachelor's last option.
-
- Virtue is its own punishment.
- *
- Line Printer paper is strongest at the perforations.
- *
- The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy.
- *
- We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always
- respect their good judgement.
- *
- A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices
- that the system works.
- *
- One nice thing about egotists: they don't talk about other people.
- The cost of living hasn't affected its popularity.
- Anybody who doesn't cut his speed at the sight of a police car is
- probably parked.
- *
- Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy
- it today you can do it again tomorrow.
- *
- Anybody with money to burn will easily find someone to tend the fire.
- *
- Teach children to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when he
- grows up, he will never be able to edge his car onto a freeway.
- *
- A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have
- enlightened him with ours.
- *
- Maybe you can't buy happiness, but these days you can certainly charge
- it.
- *
- There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, hire
- someone, or forbid your kids to do it.
- *
- The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody
- appreciates how difficult it was.
- Politics is like coaching a football team. you have to be smart enough
- to understand the game but not smart enough to lose interest.
- *
- Nobody wants constructive criticism. It's all we can do to put up with
- constructive praise.
- *
- A student who changes the course of history is probably taking an exam.
- Ever notice that even the busiest people are never too busy to tell you
- just how busy they are.
- *
- There's a fine line between courage and foolishness. Too bad its not a
- fence.
- The marvels of today's modern technology include the development of a
- soda can, when discarded will last forever...and a $7,000 car which
- when properly cared for will rust out in two or three years.
- One difference between a man and a machine is that a machine is quiet
- when well oiled.
- To be intoxicated is to feel sophisticated but not be able to say it.
- Youth is when you blame all your troubles on your parents; maturity is
- when you learn that everything is the fault of the younger generation.
- *
- A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without
- getting nervous.
- *
- Behold the warranty...the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh
- away.
- *
- Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid
- back.
- *
- How come wrong numbers are never busy?
- One thing the inventors can't seem to get the bugs out of is fresh
- paint.
- Have you noticed that all you need to grow healthy, vigorous grass is a
- crack in your sidewalk?
- *
- Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.
- *
- Cleanliness is next to impossible.
- *
- Political T.V. commercials prove one thing: some candidates can tell
- all their good points and qualifications in just 30 seconds.
- *
- Ask not for whom the telephone bell tolls...if thou art in the bathtub,
- it tolls for thee.
- *
- One way to stop a run away horse is to bet on him.
- Show me a man who is a good loser and i'll show you a man who is
- playing golf with his boss.
- *
- Serving coffee on aircraft causes turbulence.
- *
- Nothing cures insomnia like the realization that it's time to get up.
- *
- If you want your spouse to listen and pay strict attention to every
- word you say, talk in your sleep.
- *
- X-rated movies are all alike...the only thing they leave to the
- imagination is the plot.
- *
- People usually get what's coming to them...unless it's been mailed.
- *
- Isn't it strange that the same people that laugh at gypsy fortune
- tellers take economists seriously?
- *
- Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else --
- unless it is an enemy.
- There is a theory that states: "If anyone finds out what the universe
- is for it will disappear and be replaced by something more bazaarly
- inexplicable."
- There is another theory that states: "This has already happened...."
- A recent study has found that concentrating on difficult off-screen
- objects, such as the faces of loved ones, causes eye strain in computer
- scientists. Researchers into the phenomenon cite the added
- concentration needed to "make sense" of such unnatural three
- dimensional objects...
- "Calvin Coolidge looks as if he had been weaned on a pickle."
- *
- "There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the
- other is to read Pope."
- "She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to."
- A musician of more ambition than talent composed an elegy at
- the death of composer Edward MacDowell. She played the elegy for the
- pianist Josef Hoffman, then asked his opinion. "Well, it's quite
- nice," he replied, but don't you think it would be better if..."
- "If what?" asked the composer.
- "If ... if you had died and MacDowell had written the elegy?"
- *
- "The difference between a misfortune and a calamity? If Gladstone fell
- into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him
- out again, it would be a calamity."
- *
- G. B. Shaw to William Douglas Home: "Go on writing plays, my boy. One
- of these days a London producer will go into his office and say to his
- secretary, 'Is there a play from Shaw this morning?' and when she says
- 'No,' he will say, 'Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish.'
- And that's your chance, my boy."
- *
- "MacDonald has the gift on compressing the largest amount of words into
- the smallest amount of thoughts."
- "Sherry [Thomas Sheridan] is dull, naturally dull; but it must have
- taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an
- excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature."
- *
- On a paper submitted by a physicist colleague:
- *
- "This isn't right. This isn't even wrong."
- *
- Leibowitz's Rule:
- When hammering a nail, you will never hit your finger if you
- hold the hammer with both hands.
- *
- Drew's Law of Highway Biology:
- The first bug to hit a clean windshield lands directly in front
- of your eyes.
- *
- Langsam's Laws:
- 1) Everything depends.
- 2) Nothing is always.
- 3) Everything is sometimes.
- Law of Probable Dispersal:
- Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly
- distributed.
- Meader's Law:
- Whatever happens to you, it will previously have happened to
- everyone you know, only more so.
- *
- Fourth Law of Revision:
- It is usually impractical to worry beforehand about
- interferences -- if you have none, someone will make one for
- you.
- *
- Sodd's Second Law:
- Sooner or later, the worst possible set of circumstances is
- bound to occur.
- Murphy's Law is recursive. Washing your car to make it rain doesn't
- work.
- Rule of Defactualization:
- Information deteriorates upward through bureaucracies.
- Spark's Sixth Rule for Managers:
- If a subordinate asks you a pertinent question, look at him as
- if he had lost his senses. When he looks down, paraphrase the
- question back at him.
- *
- Anthony's Law of Force:
- Don't force it; get a larger hammer.
- Ray's Rule of Precision:
- Measure with a micrometer. Mark with chalk. Cut with an axe.
- Rule of Creative Research:
- 1) Never draw what you can copy.
- 2) Never copy what you can trace.
- 3) Never trace what you can cut out and paste down.
- *
- Barach's Rule:
- An alcoholic is a person who drinks more than his own
- physician.
- *
- Speak roughly to your little VAX,
- and boot it when it crashes;
- It knows that one cannot relax
- Because the paging thrashes!
- *
- Wow! Wow! Wow!
- *
- I speak severely to my VAX,
- and boot it when it crashes;
- In spite of all my favorite hacks
- My jobs it always thrashes!
- *
- Wow! Wow! Wow!
- *
- "My weight is perfect for my height -- which varies"
- "One planet is all you get."
- *
- "You can't teach people to be lazy - either they have it, or they
- don't."
- "If you have to hate, hate gently"
- Human beings were created by water to transport it uphill.
- *
- Air is water with holes in it
- "If dolphins are so smart, why did Flipper work for television?"
- *
- The Roman Rule
- The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the
- one who is doing it.
- Lackland's Laws:
- 1. Never be first.
- 2. Never be last.
- 3. Never volunteer for anything
- *
- Tussman's Law:
- Nothing is as inevitable as a mistake whose time has come.
- Oliver's Law:
- Experience is something you don't get until just after you need
- it.
- Mitchell's Law of Committees:
- Any simple problem can be made insoluble if enough meetings are
- held to discuss it.
- Baruch's Observation:
- If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
- Anthony's Law of the Workshop:
- Any tool when dropped, will roll into the least accessible
- corner of the workshop.
- *
- Corollary:
- On the way to the corner, any dropped tool will first strike
- your toes.
- Second Law of Business Meetings:
- If there are two possible ways to spell a person's name, you
- will pick the wrong one.
- *
- Corollary:
- If there is only one way to spell a name, you will spell it
- wrong, anyway.
- Grelb's Reminder:
- Eighty percent of all people consider themselves to be above
- average drivers.
- Grandpa Charnock's Law:
- You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.
- *
- Rule of the Great:
- When people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep
- thoughts, they probably are thinking about lunch.
- *
- Lieberman's Law:
- Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter since nobody listens.
- *
- Goldenstern's Rules:
- 1. Always hire a rich attorney
- 2. Never buy from a rich salesman.
- Weiner's Law of Libraries:
- There are no answers, only cross references.
- Brook's Law:
- Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
- O'Toole's Commentary on Murphy's Law:
- Murphy was an optimist.
- *
- QUOTE by Adrian Collins, in collaboration with David Tonge, is a user
- supported program. If you've got any good quotes, jokes, or proverbs,
- or monetary contributions (Well, worth a try - not really), send them
- to:
- Adrian Collins
- 70 Broad Oak Lane
- Didsbury
- Manchester M20 0GG
- England
- *
- Telephone: (+44) 061 434 3484 Email (Janet): collinsa@uk.ac.man.cs.p4
- *
- I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up.
- *
- One more drink and I'll be under the host.
- *
- Pubs make you as drunk as they can as soon as they can, and turn nasty when
- they succeed.
- *
- The trouble with the world is that everybody in it is three drinks behind.
- *
- I drink to make other people interesting.
- *
- A woman drove me to drink and I never even had the courtesy to thank her.
- *
- A man is never drunk if he can lie on the floor without holding on.
- *
- Maybe alcohol picks you up a little bit, but it sure lets you down in
- a hurry.
- *
- My dad was the town drunk. A lot of times that's not so bad -
- but New York City?
- *
- I'm delighted. The uglier we are the better we get.
- *
- Well, I suppose one regards it as an optional extra.
- *
- The President isn't going on vacation. He's going on holiday.
- *
- What I want for the 1990's is to see demilitarisation of Europe and the
- survival of Salman Rushdie to a ripe old age.
- *
- May our nation continue to be a beaken (sic) of hope to the world...
- *
- Treat every woman as if you have slept with her and you soon will.
- *
- Treat a whore like a lady and a lady like a whore.
- *
- Make love to every woman you meet; if you get 5 per cent on your outlay,
- it's a good investment.
- *
- Phrase suggested for increasing feminine fervour:
- "You are an A.I. tumble-bun."
- *
- Have the florist send some roses to Mrs Upjohn and write 'Emily I love you'
- on the back of the bill.
- *
- To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait
- to disprove it.
- *
- Never become involved with someone who can make you lose stature if the
- relation becomes known...sleep UP.
- *
- Perhaps at fourteen every boy should be in love with some ideal woman to
- put on a pedestal and worship. As he grows up, of course, he will put her
- on a pedestal the better to view her legs.
- *
- The girl in the omnibus has one of those faces of marvellous beauty which
- are seen casually in the streets but never among one's friends. Where do
- these women come from? Who marries them? Who knows them?
- *
- Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.
- *
- The great and terrible step was taken. What else could you expect from so
- expectant? 'Sex,' said Frank Harris, 'is the gateway to life.' So I went
- through the gatewat in an upper room in the Cafe Royal.
- *
- If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl,
- always give her the benefit of the doubt.
- *
- Man are those creatures with two legs and eight hands.
- *
- Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
- *
- An inexperienced female kisser:
- Where do the noses go? I always wondered where the noses would go?
- *
- On kissing Margaret Thatcher:
- We have, of course, often done it before, but never on a pavement outside a
- hotel in Eastbourne. We have done it in various rooms in one way or another
- at various functions. It is perfectly genuine - and normal and right - so
- to do.
- *
- How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is:
- "I will see you in the vestry after the service."
- *
- These sort of boobies think that people come to balls to do nothing but
- dance; whereas everyone knows that the real business of a ball is either
- to look out for a wife, to look after a wife, or to look after someone
- else's wife.
- *
- Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
- *
- Anonymous message between lovers: N.O.R.W.I.C.H.
- translation: (K)Nickers Off Ready When I Come Home.
- *
- Two people kissing always look like fish.
- *
- Why don't you come up some time and see me?
- *
- I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start
- without me.
- *
- About to exchange her fur wrap for a dressing gown:
- Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable?
- *
- Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you pleased to see me?
- *
- Condoms should be marketed in three sizes, because failures tend to occur at
- the extreme ends of the scale ... We should package them in different sizes
- and maybe label them like olives - jumbo, colossal and supercolossal - so
- that men don't have to go in and ask for the small.
- *
- When a young man said he was six feet seven inches:
- Never mind the six feet. Let's talk about the seven inches.
- *
- In the wilds: It's so quiet up here you can hear a mouse get a hard-on.
- *
- The thing that takes the least amount of time and causes the most amount
- of trouble is Sex.
- *
- Sex is all right but it's not as good as the real thing.
- *
- Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.
- *
- I'd rather have a cup of tea than go to bed with someone - any day.
- *
- Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
- *
- The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for
- money usually costs less.
- *
- No sex is better than bad sex.
- *
- Sex is one damp thing after another.
- *
- Is sex dirty? Only when it is being done right.
- *
- Sex is like money - very nice to have but vulgar to talk about.
- *
- After Sex: Fun? That was the most fun I ever had without laughing.
- *
- Other vice may be nice, but sex won't rot your teeth.
- *
- Never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
- *
- Sex is 90 per cent in the head.
- *
- The idea of using censors to bar thoughts of sex is dangerous. A person
- without sex thoughts is abnormal.
- *
- Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy
- sometimes results in sex.
- *
- Morality in sexual relations, when it is free from superstition, consists
- essentially of respect for the other person, and unwillingness to use the
- person solely as means of personal gratification, without regard to his or
- her desires.
- *
- Lovers don't snore.
- *
- Sex - the poor man's polo.
- *
- A little incompatibility is the spice of life, particularly if he has
- income and she is pattable.
- *
- Sex in marriage is like medicine. Three times a day for the first week.
- Then once a day for another week. Then once every three or four days until
- the condition clears up.
- *
- I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day;
- I never had time for tobacco since.
- *
- My dad told me, "Anything worth having is worth waiting for."
- I waited until I was fifteen.
- *
- Would you, my dear young friends, like to be inside with the five wise
- virgins or outside, alone and in the dark, with the five foolish ones?
- *
- I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands.
- *
- If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in
- driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.
- *
- When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young.
- Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the
- hardest part.
- *
- He had heard that one is permitted a certain latitude with widows,
- and went in for the whole 180 degrees.
- *
- I consider a day in which I make love only once virtually wasted.
- *
- I like naked ladies - one at a time, in private.
- *
- Advice to his son on sex:
- The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous,
- and the expense damnable.
- *
- I am that twentieth-century failure: a happy, undersexed, celibate.
- *
- Lord give me chastity - but not yet.
- *
- Chastity is its own punishment.
- *
- It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that
- virginity could be a virtue.
- *
- Chastity is the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.
- *
- Virginity is like a balloon - one prick and it's gone.
- *
- Celibacy is not an inherited characteristic.
- *
- Those who choose matrimony do well, and those who choose virginity or
- voluntary abstinence do better.
- *
- Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
- *
- About the only thing you should be able to say about a Catholic priest
- is that his father wasn't one.
- *
- Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost a muddy
- horse-pond.
- *
- It is better to marry than to burn.
- *
- A bachelor lives like a king and dies like a beggar.
- *
- On having children:
- Life is pleasant, but I have no yearning to clutter up the universe after
- it is over.
- *
- When you've got over the disgrace of the single life, it's more airy.
- *
- Bachelors should be heavily taxed; it is not fair that some men should be
- happier than others.
- *
- 'Home, Sweet Home' must surely have been written by a bachelor.
- *
- Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they did not they
- would have married too.
- *
- Honey, I'm single because I was born that way. I never married, because I
- would have had to give up my favourite hobby - men.
- *
- I'm not going to make the same mistake once.
- *
- By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent
- public temptation.
- *
- A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and
- a boy forever.
- *
- A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting
- tied to one.
- *
- On marriage:
- Why buy a book when you can borrow one from the library?
- *
- There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
- *
- Prostitues for pleasure, concubines for service, wives for breeding.
- ('and a melon for ecstacy' is sometimes added...)
- *
- On the difference between a diplomat and a lady:
- When a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps.
- When he says perhaps he means no.
- When he says no, he is not a diplomat.
- *
- When a lady says no, she means perhaps.
- When she says perhaps, she means yes.
- But when she says yes, she is no lady.
- *
- You see an awful lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see
- a smart woman with a dumb guy.
- *
- Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain
- that he's not the man she married?
- *
- Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.
- *
- As usual there's a great woman behind every idiot.
- *
- Women were born without a sense of humour - so they could love men and not
- laugh at them.
- *
- When women kiss, it always reminds me of prize-fighters shaking hands.
- *
- Women are a problem, but if you haven't already guessed, they're the kind of
- problem I enjoy wrestling with.
- *
- The more I see of men the less I like them; if I could but say so of women
- too, all would be well.
- *
- God created women because He couldn't teach sheep how to type.
- *
- No woman is worth the loss of a night's sleep.
- *
- A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
- *
- I like the whiskey old and the women young.
- *
- A woman's place is in the wrong.
- *
- He that has a white horse, and a fair woman, is never without trouble.
- *
- Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
- *
- There is no greater fan of the opposite sex,
- and I have the bills to prove it.
- *
- It's the fallen women who are usually picked up.
- *
- It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
- *
- How do girls get minks? The same way minks get minks.
- *
- The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
- *
- What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore.
- *
- Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the
- last time.
- *
- Man are beasts, and even beasts don't behave as they do.
- *
- All men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes,
- their laws and their codes.
- *
- All men are like Arabs.
- *
- The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.
- *
- Women like the simplet things in life - like men.
- *
- A woman without a man is like a garden without a fence.
- *
- We made civilisation to impress our girl friends.
- *
- If god considered woman a helpmeet for men, He must have had a poor opinion
- of men.
- *
- Love is man's delusion that one woman differs from another - still, man is
- better off than woman; he marries later and dies sooner.
- *
- All men are different, but husbands are all alike.
- *
- There's simply no other way for a man to feel his manliness, his knigliness
- if you will, than to be loved by a beautiful woman.
- *
- Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who
- make advances to them.
- *
- A hard man is good to find.
- *
- A man with an erection is in no need of advice.
- *
- It's not the men in my life, but the life in my men that counts.
- *
- Men who aren't pet-lovers aren't any good in bed.
- *
- You know more about a man in one night than you do in months of
- conversation. In the sack, they can't cheat.
- *
- I like him and it in that order.
- *
- Amor Vincit Omnia (Love conquers all)
- *
- When asked if he was in love on getting engaged to Lady Diana Spencer:
- Yes - whatever 'in love' means.
- *
- If love is the answer, can you rephrase the question.
- *
- Any time that is not spent on love is wasted.
- *
- When people say, "You're breaking my heart", they do in fact usually mean
- that you're breaking their genitals.
- *
- Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common
- therewith.
- *
- The Art of Love:
- Knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion
- of an anemone.
- *
- Love is being stupid together.
- *
- Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- *
- Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- *
- Nothing is better for the spirit or body than a love affair. It elevates
- thoughts and flattens stomachs.
- *
- Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.
- *
- I have fallen in love with all sorts of girls and I fully intend to go on
- doing so.
- *
- I went out bicycling one afternoon, and suddenly, as I was riding along a
- country road, I realised that I no longer loved Alys.
- *
- With the few words I wanted to assure that I love you and if you had been a
- woman I would have concidered marrying you, although your head is full of
- grey hairs, but as you are a man that possibility doesn't arise.
- *
- Love is so much better when you are not married.
- *
- One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
- *
- A lover has all the good points and all the bad points which are locking
- in a husband.
- *
- The less we love a women, the more we are loved by her.
- *
- There is a codeword which opens safes - it is LOVE.
- *
- Love letters are the campaign promises of the heart.
- *
- I was in love once when I was young. But then I became attached to the
- Bureau.
- *
- You can always get someone to love you -
- even if you have to do it yourself.
- *
- To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
- *
- I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
- *
- To Oscar Levant:
- If you had it all over again, Oscar, would you fall in love with
- yourself?
- *
- When people have loved me I have been embarrassed.
- *
- The French boys will be naught. Their minds do chiefly run on the
- propagation of their race.
- *
- Continental people have sex-life; the English have hot-water bottles.
- *
- Once they call you a Latin Lover, you're in real trouble. Women expect an
- Oscar performance in bed.
- *
- For adult women wishing to marry, the best prospects are in Greenland.
- *
- Everything short of war, President Roosevelt promised the English by way of
- help in the dark days of the blitz; in the same way, American girls are
- liable to promise their beaux everything short of fornication.
- *
- Australia: Where men are men and sheep are nervous.
- *
- You just leave those Russians to me, honey. I'll take 'em all on,
- a battalion at a time, and send them back to Omsk with their little
- tails between their legs.
- *
- The Welsh are the only husbands to put their wives on their national flag.
- *
- What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the
- climate's sultry.
- *
- The mind is an errogenous zone.
- *
- Were it not for imagination, a man would be as happy in the arms of a
- chambermaid as of a duchess.
- *
- Sex appeal is 50 per cent what you've got and 50 per cent what people think
- you've got.
- *
- The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms.
- *
- Women fall in love through their ears and men through their eyes.
- *
- Male sexual response is far brisker and more automatic; it is triggered
- easily by things, like putting a quarter in a vending machine.
- *
- All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer.
- It's an aphrodisiac.
- *
- Hair is another name for sex.
- *
- Being baldpate is an unfailing sex magnet.
- *
- Absinthe makes the parts grow stronger.
- *
- On Caroline of Brunswick's behaviour with the dey (governor) of Algiers:
- She was happy as they dey was long.
- *
- What matters is not the length of the wand, but the magic in the stick.
- *
- Instructions for the Best Positions on the Pianoforte.
- *
- There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays,
- And - every - single - one - of - them - is - right!
- *
- Oral sex is a matter of taste.
- *
- When Edwina Currie held aloft a pair of handcuffs at a Tory Party Conference:
- I Admit I felt a bat's squeak of desire.
- *
- Men like long nails - in old movies couples were always scratching each
- other's backs.
- *
- Dancing is wonderful training for girls; it's the first way you learn to
- guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
- *
- On dancing: A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
- *
- You know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing!
- *
- To the average male there is seemingly nothing so attractive or so
- challenging as a reasonably good-looking young mother who is married and
- ALONE.
- *
- In the past a sexy woman was one who lay on a sofa like an odalisque,
- smoking a cigarette. Now she is an athletic woman.
- *
- Sweaty is sexy.
- *
- Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.
- *
- Long-legged girls are fascinating - built for walking through grass.
- *
- High heels were invented by a women who had been kissed on the forehead.
- *
- Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes;
- men who like women never notice what they wear.
- *
- A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.
- *
- No woman [is] so naked as one you can see to be naked underneath her clothes.
- *
- Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
- *
- The ends justify the jeans.
- *
- I knew I would like her when I saw how her backside moved under her red
- satin skirt.
- *
- A curved line is the loveliest distance between two points.
- *
- The girl had as many curves as a scenic railway.
- *
- I'm just naturally respectful of pretty girls in tight-fitting sweaters.
- *
- British boobs are the best in the world.
- *
- I was the first woman to burn mt bra - it took the fire department four days
- to put it out.
- *
- If I hadn't had them, I would have had some made.
- *
- I really wish my bust was smaller.
- *
- Physical love, forbidden as it was twenty or thirty years ago, has now
- become boringly obligatory.
- *
- And so to bed.
- *
- Don't ever have sex with someone in your office. Wait until you get home.
- *
- It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the
- trouble in the garden.
- *
- An erection is like the Theory of Relativity - the more you think about it,
- the harder it gets.
- *
- On the pope and birth control:
- He no play-a da game. He no make-a da rules!
- *
- The best contraceptive is a glass of cold water: not before or after,
- but instead.
- *
- I would not like to leave contraception on the long finger too long.
- *
- Love is two minutes fifty-two seconds of quishing noises. It shows your
- mind isn't clicking right.
- *
- Sex is best in the afternoon after coming out of the shower.
- *
- A women is a well-served table that one sees with different eyes before and
- after the meal.
- *
- Masterbation is the thinking man's television.
- *
- Masturbation is coming unscrewed.
- *
- Don't knock masterbation - it's sex with someone you love.
- *
- Masterbation is great - and you don't have to take your hand out to dinner
- afterwards and talk to it about its problems.
- *
- One thing about masterbation - you meet a better class of person.
- *
- Young farmer with 100 acres would be pleased to hear from young lady with
- tractor. Please send photograph of tractor.
- *
- On marriage: The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly
- of the chaise longue.
- *
- If we take matrimony at its lowest, We regard it as a sort of friendship
- recognised by the police.
- *
- Courtship is to marriage as a very witty prologue is to a dull play.
- *
- On her decision to accept the late Duke's marriage proposal:
- I decided I had enjoyed myself long enough.
- *
- Marriage: It begins with a prince kissing an angel. It ends with a
- baldheaded man looking across the table at a fat women.
- *
- Marriage: It begins when you sink into his arms; and ends with your arms
- in his sink.
- *
- Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
- *
- Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the
- remaining chapters in prose.
- *
- Marriage is a covered dish.
- *
- Marriage may be compared to a cage. The birds outside despair to get in
- and those within despair to get out.
- *
- Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master,
- a mistress, and two slaves, making, in all, two.
- *
- I think marriage is a very personal thing.
- *
- If they only married when they fell in love most people would die unwed.
- *
- Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays
- and the other never forgets them.
- *
- No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one
- woman.
- *
- My son got his first part, playing a man who's been married for thirty years.
- I told him to stick at it and next time he'd get a speaking part.
- *
- The most happy marriage I can picture... Would be the union of a deaf man to
- a blind woman.
- *
- Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost
- certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little care in this very
- imperfect one) both partners might have found more suitable mates. But the
- real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.
- *
- The best of all possible marriages is a seesaw in which first one then the
- other partner is dominant.
- *
- Getting married is a serious matter for a girl; not getting married is even
- more serious.
- *
- Marrieage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the
- maximum of opportunity.
- *
- To have a women to lye with when one pleases, without running any risk of the
- cursed expense of bastards... these are solid views of matrimony.
- *
- A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered
- with sexm and all that sort of thing.
- *
- Every bride has to learn it's not her wedding but her mother's.
- *
- When an old man marries a young wife, he grows younger - but she grows older.
- *
- I have always thought that every woman should marry and no man.
- *
- If you marry you will regret it. If you do not marry, you will also
- regret it.
- *
- When two divorced people marry, four get into bed.
- *
- To marry a second time represents the triumph of hope over experience.
- *
- A man and a woman marry because both of them don't know what to do with
- themselves.
- *
- On getting married:
- It's like signing a 356-page contract without knowing what's in it.
- *
- The surest way to be alone is to get married.
- *
- If you're afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
- *
- The greatest thing about marriage is that it enables one to be alone without
- feeling loneliness.
- *
- It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the same reason that it is
- more difficult to show a ready wit all day long than to say a good thing
- occasionally.
- *
- Husbands are chiefly good lovers when they are betraying their wives.
- *
- I was married once - in San Francisco. I haven't seen her for many years.
- The great earthquake and fire in 1906 destroyed the marriage certificate.
- There's no legal proof. Which proves that earthquakes aren't all bad.
- *
- Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and
- through the nose of the gentleman.
- *
- Most men fall in love with a pretty face but find themselves bound for life
- to a hateful stranger, alternating endlessly between workshop and a witch's
- kitchen.
- *
- In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy.
- *
- I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.
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