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haunted · « **Reply #120 on:** July 29, 2008, 06:42:18 PM »

"If I was half the man I was five years ago, I’d take a flamethrower to this place!"

Al Pacino, Scent of a Woman

DWxchzrles · « **Reply #121 on:** July 30, 2008, 08:20:54 AM »

I have come to the conclusion, that one useless man is a disgrace, 2 are a law firm and 3 or more are called a Congress.

John Adams

DWxchzrles · « **Reply #122 on:** August 03, 2008, 11:36:39 AM »

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death

George Carlin

|iR|Focalor · « **Reply #123 on:** August 03, 2008, 06:52:07 PM »

"Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom, indeed they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow. It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually welcome problems."
~Dr. M. Scott Peck from The Road Less Travelled

DWxchzrles · « **Reply #124 on:** August 15, 2008, 10:34:51 PM »

I never let my schooling interfere with my education

Mark Twain

DWxchzrles · « **Reply #125 on:** August 28, 2008, 07:49:47 AM »

When a man’s dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama

Mark Twain

|iR|Focalor · « **Reply #126 on:** August 29, 2008, 06:08:41 AM »

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

-Oscar Wilde (Preface, The Picture of Dorian Gray)

DWxchzrles · « **Reply #127 on:** August 30, 2008, 11:02:48 PM »

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Oscar Wilde

|iR|Focalor · « **Reply #128 on:** August 31, 2008, 09:42:32 PM »

God I loved Oscar Wilde. He was such an eloquent smart-ass. You'd almost thank him for insulting you.

The Dreaming Dragon · « **Reply #129 on:** September 01, 2008, 11:31:27 AM »

Then you may like this:

http://www.amazon.com/Jakas-Story-Cerebus-Dave-Sim/dp/0919359124/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220293685&sr=1-1

Jaka'sStory

A graphic novel from the Cerebus the aardvark series that features Oscar Wilde as a main character in this storyline.Its self contained and you need not understand the whole comic to enjoy it.Worth hunting down in your favorite comic shop:)

|iR|Focalor · « **Reply #130 on:** September 01, 2008, 05:37:26 PM »

Believe me, if I started murdering people.... there'd be none of you left.

-Charles Manson

DWxchzrles · « **Reply #131 on:** September 03, 2008, 02:41:10 PM »

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

Sir Winston Churchill

DWxchzrles · « **Reply #132 on:** September 09, 2008, 12:04:15 PM »

Questions are never impertinent. Answers sometimes are.

Oscar Wilde

DWxchzrles · « **Reply #133 on:** September 11, 2008, 06:07:52 PM »

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love

Carl Sagan

DWxchzrles · « **Reply #134 on:** September 23, 2008, 10:50:17 AM »

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave
When they think that their children are naive.

Ogden Nash

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