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Dying is easy. Comedy is difficult.
 P Harry Thurston
There is always something new out of Africa.
 Pa
Long Chen
One good turn deserves another.
 Pa Jessie
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths good theatre.
 Paar
Jack
XLI:
The more one produces, the less one gets.
XLII:
Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.
XLIII:
Hardware works best when it matters the least.
XLIV:
Aircraft flight in the 21st century will always be in a we Paar
Jack
The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.
 Paine
Thomas
The means-and-ends moralists, or non-doers, always end up on their ends
without any means.
 Paine
Thomas
A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.
 Palindromist
The Mad
A commune is where people join together to share their lack of wealth.
 Parker
Dorothy
Burnt Sienna. That's the best thing that ever happened to Crayolas.
 Parker
Dorothy
A woman's a woman until the day she dies, but a man's only a man as long
as he can.
 Parker
Dorothy
No is no negative in a woman's mouth.
 Parker
Dorothy
Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
 Parker
Dorothy
A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles
in the road.
 Parker
Dorothy
Traveling through hyperspace isn't like dusting crops, boy.
 Parker
Dorthy
(1) Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood.
(2) If your stomach antagonizes you, pacify it with cool thoughts.
(3) Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move.
(4) Go very lightly on the vices, such as carrying on in society, as
 Parker Robert
What an artist dies with me!
 Parkinson
After the game the king and the pawn go in the same box.
 Parkinson
C.N.
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
 Parkinson
C.N.
Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.
 Parnas
Dave
Life is the living you do, Death is the living you don't do.
 Pascal
Blaise
I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending
their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to
buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike.
 Pascal
Blaise
The faster I go, the behinder I get.
 Pascal
Blaise
"Rembrandt's first name was Beauregard, which is why he never used it."
 Pasteur
L.
It'll be just like Beggars' Canyon back home.
 Pat Cadigan
Mate, this parrot wouldn't VOOM if you put four million volts through it!
 Pat Cadigan
Remembering is for those who have forgotten.
 Patricia O Tuama
It is Mr. Mellon's credo that $200,000,000 can do no wrong. Our
offense consists in doubting it.
 Patrick
Saint
All phone calls are obscene.
 Patton
Ever get the feeling that the world's on tape and one of the reels is missing?
 Paul Erdman
I consider a new device or technology to have been culturally accepted when
it has been used to commit a murder.
 Paul Tillich German
... [concerning quotation marks] even if we *___did* quote anybody in this
business, it probably would be gibberish.
 Pelt
Lucy Van
Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners.
In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the
original earth clinging to the roots.
 Penn Jillette
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 gobb Penn William
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
 Perce Chief Joseph
Roumanian-Yiddish cooking has killed more Jews than Hitler.
 Perelman
S.J.
Words have a longer life than deeds.
 Pericles
I went to a Grateful Dead Concert and they played for SEVEN hours. Great song.
 Perlis
Alan J.
God helps them that help themselves.
 Peter
Dr. Laurence J.
Why does a hearse horse snicker, hauling a lawyer away?
 Peter
Dr. Laurence J.
We all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
 Peter
Irene
I am a man: nothing human is alien to me.
 Peter
Laurence
Being a miner, as soon as you're too old and tired and sick and stupid to
do your job properly, you have to go, where the very opposite applies with
the judges.
 Peter
Laurence J.
'Scuse me, while I kiss the sky!
 Peter
Laurence J.
Watch your mouth, kid, or you'll find yourself floating home.
 Peter Stack
Faith is under the left nipple.
 Peter Straub
XXI:
It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.
XXII:
If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock,
not selling advice.
XXIII:
Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is
currently estimated.
XXIV:
 Petronius
Gaius
Perhaps the remembrance of these things will prove a source of future
pleasure.
 Phaedrus
There's no justice in this world.
 Phaedrus
All art is but imitation of nature.
 Phaedrus
Look, we trade every day out there with hustlers, deal-makers, shysters,
con-men. That's the way businesses get started. That's the way this
country was built.
 Philip Hale Boston
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
0. integrated 0. management 0. options
1. total 1. organizational 1. flexibility
2. systematized 2. monitored 2. capability
3. parallel 3. reciprocal 3. mobility
4. functional 4. digital 4. programming
5. re Philips
Emo
Once he had one leg in the White House and the nation trembled under his
roars. Now he is a tinpot pope in the Coca-Cola belt and a brother to the
forlorn pastors who belabor halfwits in galvanized iron tabernacles behind
the railroad yards."
 Phillips
Emo
Fast ship? You mean you've never heard of the Millennium Falcon?
 Phillips
Utah
There are no accidents whatsoever in the universe.
 Physicist John von Neumann
In my end is my beginning.
 Picasso
Jesus may love you, but I think you're garbage wrapped in skin.
 Picasso
Take the folks at Coca-Cola. For many years, they were content
to sit back and make the same old carbonated beverage. It was a good
beverage, no question about it; generations of people had grown up
drinking it and doing the experiment in sixth gr Picasso
Pablo
What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for
something to occur to you.
 Pike Bishop James
Small is beautiful.
 Pile Stephen
"Well, if you can't believe what you read in a comic book, what *___can*
you believe?!"
 Pile Stephen
Chapter 1
The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot
of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
 Pile Stephen
When the sun shineth, make hay.
 Pile Stephen
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads
lead down.
 Pile Stephen
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a
statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious
to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look,
which morally we can do. T Pindar
Art is a jealous mistress.
 Pindar
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
 Pinero
Sir Arthur Wing
Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect
that life is no farce; that it is not genteel comedy even; that it flowers
and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundest tragic depths of the
essential death in which its Pintauro
Joseph
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are good at heart.
 Pirsig Robert
In "King Henry VI, Part II," Shakespeare has Dick Butcher suggest to
his fellow anti-establishment rabble-rousers, "The first thing we do, let's
kill all the lawyers." That action may be extreme but a similar sentiment
was expressed by Thomas K. Co Platford
Lois
By the middle 1880's, practically all the roads except those in
the South, were of the present standard gauge. The southern roads were
still five feet between rails.
It was decided to change the gauge of all southern roads to standard,
in one day Plato
Being a miner, as soon as you're too old and tired and sick and stupid to
do your job properly, you have to go, where the very opposite applies with
the judges.
 Plato
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
 Plato
There's nothing worse for your business than extra Santa Clauses
smoking in the men's room.
 Plato
Live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.
 Plato
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more
annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
 Plato
... Our second completely true news item was sent to me by Mr. H. Boyce
Connell Jr. of Atlanta, Ga., where he is involved in a law firm. One thing
I like about the South is, folks there care about tradition. If somebody
gets handed a name like "H.  Plautus
Titus Maccius
Public use of any portable music system is a virtually guaranteed indicator
of sociopathic tendencies.
 Plautus
Titus Maccius
Among all savage beasts, none is found so harmful as woman.
 Plautus
Titus Maccius
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
 Player
Willis
A woman who is unfaithful deserves to be shot.
 Plotinus
Princeton's taste is sweet like a strawberry tart. Harvard's is a subtle
taste, like whiskey, coffee, or tobacco. It may even be a bad habit, for
all I know.
 Plummer
Christopher
If what they've been doing hasn't solved the problem, tell them to
do something else.
 Plutarch
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
 Pollard
John G.
Sometimes, too long is too long.
 Pooh-Bah
Why are you doing this to me?
Because knowledge is torture, and there must be awareness before
there is change.
 Pope
"We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!"
 Pope
Alexander
Immature artists imitate, mature artists steal.
 Pope
Alexander
It is up to us to produce better-quality movies.
 Pope John Paul
I never cheated an honest man, only rascals. They wanted something for
nothing. I gave them nothing for something.
 Pope St. Gregory
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
 Poppins
Mary
An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.
 Postmas James
The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned
into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.
 Pournelle
Niven and
Haste makes waste.
 Powers
Richard
She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.
 Prabhupada
Swami
The coast was clear.
 Prentice
George D.
To have died once is enough.
 President
Pat Paulsen for
The term "fire" brings up visions of violence and mayhem and the ugly scene
of shooting employees who make mistakes. We will now refer to this process
as "deleting" an employee (much as a file is deleted from a disk). The
employee is simply there o Presley
Elvis
The Least Successful Equal Pay Advertisement
In 1976 the European Economic Community pointed out to the Irish
Government that it had not yet implemented the agreed sex equality
legislation. The Dublin Government immediately advertised for an equal  Presley
Elvis
It is better to have loved and lost  Price
Don
Mental power tended to corrupt, and absolute intelligence tended to
corrupt absolutely, until the victim eschewed violence entirely in
favor of smart solutions to stupid problems.
 Prochnow
Herbert
Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
 Prochnow
Herbert V.
In case of fire, stand in the hall and shout "Fire!"
 Professor
English
It is Mr. Mellon's credo that $200,000,000 can do no wrong. Our
offense consists in doubting it.
 Prosser
D. Winkel and F.
Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that
reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away
someone else's cash.
 Protagoras
Feminists say 60 percent of the country's wealth is in the hands of women.
They're letting men hold the other 40 percent because their handbags are full.
 Proust
M.
What you don't know won't help you much either.
 Proverb
A Yippie
Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
 Proverb
Ancient Simian
If reporters don't know that truth is plural, they ought to be lawyers.
 Proverb
Chinese
Optimism is the content of small men in high places.
 Proverb
Chinese
Neckties strangle clear thinking.
 Proverb
Recent Chinese
"I only touch base with reality on an as-needed basis!"
 Pryne
Hester
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits,
but not when it misses.
 Psalms
Why does a hearse horse snicker, hauling a lawyer away?
 Publilius
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant
and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
 Publius Ovidius Naso
Not to laugh, not to lament, not to curse, but to understand.
 Publius Terentius Afer
Before he became a hermit, Zarathud was a young Priest, and
took great delight in making fools of his opponents in front of
his followers.
One day Zarathud took his students to a pleasant pasture and
there he confronted The Sacred Chao while She  Publius Terentius Afer
The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively.
 Publius Terentius Afer
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
 Publius Terentius Afer
One man's Mede is another man's Persian.
 Publius Vergilius Maro
God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
 Publius Vergilius Maro
Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational.
 Publius Vergilius Maro
A little inaccuracy saves a world of explanation.
 Publius Vergilius Maro
I need another lawyer like I need another hole in my head.
 Pudd'nhead Wilson's
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it
were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
 Pulitzer
Joseph
A good reputation is more valuable than money.
 Pusey
Nathan
God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
 Pyrrhus
Luke, I'm yer father, eh. Come over to the dark side, you hoser.
 Python
Monty
True to our past we work with an inherited, observed, and accepted vision of
personal futility, and of the beauty of the world.
 prayer
Medieval
The tree in which the sap is stagnant remains fruitless.
 proverb
Arab
This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.
 proverb
Arabian
The major sin is the sin of being born.
 proverb
Chinese
When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam: I looked into
the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
 proverb
Chinese
When I have one foot in the grave I will tell the truth about women. I
shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me, and say, "Do
what you like now."
 proverb
Chinese
You cannot see the wood for the trees.
 proverb
Chinese
All of us should treasure his Oriental wisdom and his preaching of a
Zen-like detachment, as exemplified by his constant reminder to clerks,
tellers, or others who grew excited by his presence in their banks:
"Just lie down on the floor and keep calm proverb
Chinese
If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?
 proverb
Chinese
I didn't believe in reincarnation in any of my other lives. I don't see why
I should have to believe in it in this one.
 proverb
Chinese
A priest asked: What is Fate, Master?
And the Master answered:
It is that which gives a beast of burden its reason for existence.
It is that which men in former times had to bear upon their backs.
It is that which has caused nations to build bywa proverb
Indian
I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
 proverb
Italian
... but as records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be
proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge
to mankind. The evidence (including confession) upon which certain women
were convicted of witch proverb
Polish
I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some
kind of loophole.
 proverb
Spanish
If God is One, what is bad?
 proverb
Turkish
Another day, another dollar.
 proverb.
Scottish
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