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Divorce is a game played by lawyers.
 Rabelais
You cannot see the wood for the trees.
 Raleigh
Sir Walter
In childhood a woman must be subject to her father; in youth to her
husband; when her husband is dead, to her sons. A woman must never
be free of subjugation.
 Rand
Ayn
Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.
 Rand
Ayn
Let's remind ourselves that last year's fresh idea is today's cliche.
 Randall
Stanley J.
"I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very
reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment."
 Rankin
Jeannette
I BET WHAT HAPPENED was they discovered fire and invented the wheel on
the same day. Then that night, they burned the wheel.
 Ransford Chicago Reader
He knows not how to know who knows not also how to unknow.
 Ray
Bob &
The first requisite for immortality is death.
 Ray Kroc
"We maintain that the very foundation of our way of life is what we call
free enterprise," said Cash McCall, "but when one of our citizens
show enough free enterprise to pile up a little of that profit, we do
our best to make him feel that he ought t Ray Kroc Founder
Fortune Documents the Great Legal Decisions:
We think that we may take judicial notice of the fact that the term "bitch"
may imply some feeling of endearment when applied to a female of the canine
species but that it is seldom, if ever, so used whe Raymond
F. J.
With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end of
it. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too
close. Like catching snakes.
 Raymond Aron
We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.
 Reagan
Ronald
Sho' they got to have it against the law. Shoot, ever'body git high,
they wouldn't be nobody git up and feed the chickens. Hee-hee.
 Reagan
Ronald
It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
 Reagan
Ronald
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 Reagan
Ronald
A woman employs sincerity only when every other form of deception has failed.
 Reagan
Ronald
Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing.
 Reagan
Ronald
If we don't survive, we don't do anything else.
 Reagan
Ronald
Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
 Reagan
Ronald
Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.
 Reagan
Ronald
We're all in this alone.
 Reagan Ronald
Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't,
don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
 Reed
Rex
Never appeal to a man's "better nature." He may not have one.
Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.
 Reed
Rex
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away".
 Reed
Thomas B.
Better late than never.
 Regan Gerald
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
 Reich
Wilhelm
Certainly the game is rigged.
Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win.
 Reid Thomas
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 Remarque
Erich Maria
No good deed goes unpunished.
 Report
The Kidner
Nothing recedes like success.
 Reuss
Fred
At ebb tide I wrote a line upon the sand, and gave it all my heart and all
my soul. At flood tide I returned to read what I had inscribed and found my
ignorance upon the shore.
 Rich Rosen
The only problem with seeing too much is that it makes you insane.
 Richard
Little
Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of
those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the
will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of
government, therefore, Richard
I value kindness to human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I
don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected
with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger,
the food cheaper, and old men Richard
God is Dead.
 Richard Bach
"Earth is a great, big funhouse without the fun."
 Richard Bach
There is no proverb that is not true.
 Richard Bach
There is always something new out of Africa.
 Richard Bach
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails,
admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
 Richard Henry Dama
Have you ever stopped to think what it would be like to have a woman President?
"I can't deal with the Russians today. Not now. I've got my period."
 Richler
Mordecai
Forgive and forget.
 Ringer
Robert J.
What makes you think graduate school is supposed to be satisfying?
 Rizzo
Mayor Frank
Where there is much light there is also much shadow.
 Robbins
Tom
The pollution's at that awkward stage. Too thick to navigate and too
thin to cultivate.
 Robbins
Tom
Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but
when there is no longer anything to take away.
 Robbins
Tom
Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.
 Robbins
Tom
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think
little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and
Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."
 Robbins Tom
Optimism is the content of small men in high places.
 Robert Frost
An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.
 Robert Oppenheimer
Intellect annuls Fate.
So far as a man thinks, he is free.
 Robert Pante
If I were a grave-digger or even a hangman, there are some people I could
work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
 Robert Preston
Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.
 Robertson Davies
 Robertson.
D.W.
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.
 Rochefou
When you die, you lose a very important part of your life.
 Rochefou La
God gave man two ears and one tongue so that we listen twice as much as
we speak.
 Rochefoucauld
La
One man's Mede is another man's Persian.
 Rochefoucauld
La
You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a
kind word alone.
 Rochefoucauld
La
It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works
and has his being.
 Rockefeller
David
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits,
but not when it misses.
 Rockefeller
John D.
Some men are heterosexual, and some are bisexual, and some men don't think
about sex at all... they become lawyers.
 Rockwell
George Lincoln
If reporters don't know that truth is plural, they ought to be lawyers.
 Roger Zelazny
There's no justice in this world.
 Roger Zelazny
Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
 Roger Zelazny
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think
little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and
Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."
 Rogers
The Best of Will
When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing,"
it's the money.
 Rogers
The Best of Will
None love the bearer of bad news.
 Rogers
The Best of Will
We are not a loved organization, but we are a respected one.
 Rogers
The Best of Will
'Naomi, sex at noon taxes.' I moan.
Never odd or even.
A man, a plan, a canal, Panama.
Madam, I'm Adam.
Sit on a potato pan, Otis.
Sit on Otis.
 Rogers
The Best of Will
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads
lead down.
 Rogers
The Best of Will
What excuses stand in your way? How can you eliminate them?
 Rogers
The Best of Will
The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has
already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished,
and put inside boxes.
 Rogers
The Best of Will
This is an especially good time for you vacationers who plan to fly, because
the Reagan administration, as part of the same policy under which it
recently sold Yellowstone National Park to Wayne Newton, has "deregulated"
the airline industry. What t Rogers
Will
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.
 Rogers
Will
So little time, so little to do.
 Rogers
Will
Everything takes longer, costs more, and is less useful.
 Rogers
Will
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
 Rogers
Will
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.
 Rogers
Will
Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.
 Rogers
Will
It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters.
 Rogers
Will
Live fast, die young, and leave a flat patch of fur on the highway!
 Rogers
Will
If men are not afraid to die,
it is of no avail to threaten them with death.
If men live in constant fear of dying,
And if breaking the law means a man will be killed,
Who will dare to break the law?
There is always an official executioner.
If Rogers
Will
Nasrudin returned to his village from the imperial capital, and the villagers
gathered around to hear what had passed. "At this time," said Nasrudin, "I
only want to say that the King spoke to me." All the villagers but the
stupidest ran off to spr Rogers
Will
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
 Rogers
Will
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and
robbers there will be.
 Rogers Will
Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.
 Rom Prof.
What you don't know won't help you much either.
 Rona Vincent J. Fuller
The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively.
 Rona Vincent J. Fuller
If you aren't rich you should always look useful.
 Ronald Brady
Exceptions prove the rule, and wreck the budget.
 Ronald Knox
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
 Ronald Reagan
"Hey, Sam, how about a loan?"
"Whattaya need?"
"Oh, about $500."
"Whattaya got for collateral?"
"Whattaya need?"
"How about an eye?"
 Roosevelt
Eleanor
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."
 Roosevelt
Eleanor
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate
knowledge of its ugly side.
 Roosevelt
Franklin D.
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.
 Roosevelt
Franklin D.
The flush toilet is the basis of Western civilization.
 Roosevelt
Franklin Delano
The man who runs may fight again.
 Roosevelt
Teddy
Well, we'll really have a party, but we've gotta post a guard outside.
 Roosevelt
Theodore
There has been a little distress selling on the stock exchange.
 Roosevelt
Theodore
What one fool can do, another can.
 Rose
Billy
It has long been noticed that juries are pitiless for robbery and full of
indulgence for infanticide. A question of interest, my dear Sir! The jury
is afraid of being robbed and has passed the age when it could be a victim
of infanticide.
 Rossetti
Christina
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.
 Roth
D.L.
Maternity pay? Now every Tom, Dick and Harry will get pregnant.
 Rouchefoucauld
La
If a jury in a criminal trial stays out for more than twenty-four hours, it
is certain to vote acquittal, save in those instances where it votes guilty.
 Rouchefoucauld
La
Many hands make light work.
 Roy L. Ash
The means-and-ends moralists, or non-doers, always end up on their ends
without any means.
 Royal
Darrell
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
 Royko
Mike
"Hi, I'm Preston A. Mantis, president of Consumers Retail Law Outlet. As you
can see by my suit and the fact that I have all these books of equal height
on the shelves behind me, I am a trained legal attorney. Do you have a car
or a job? Do you ever Rubinstein
Arthur
Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking
almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all
possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
 Rudner
Rita
Jesus may love you, but I think you're garbage wrapped in skin.
 Rufus
I understand why you're confused. You're thinking too much.
 Rukeyser
Muriel
There's no such thing as an original sin.
 Runyon
Damon
There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
 Rusk
Dean
"No job too big; no fee too big!"
 Russel Baker
I never cheated an honest man, only rascals. They wanted something for
nothing. I gave them nothing for something.
 Russell
Bertrand
Getting into trouble is easy.
 Russell
Bertrand
By perseverance the snail reached the Ark.
 Russell
Bertrand
To restore a sense of reality, I think Walt Disney should have a Hardluckland.
 Russell
Bertrand
Imagine what we can imagine!
 Russell
Bertrand
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
 Russell Baker
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of
the beholder.
 Russell Bertrand
The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of
management is that success equals skill.
 Russell Hoban
Real wealth can only increase.
 Ryan
Tom K.
If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing
of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur
of this life.
 regulations.
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 Wilde
Oscar
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