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The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Import and Export "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Import and Export
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Import and Export "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Import and Export
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Import and Export My other wife is beautiful. Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Import and Export
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Import and Export "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Import and Export
"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Import and Export Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Import and Export
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Import and Export "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Import and Export
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Import and Export Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Import and Export
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Import and Export Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Import and Export
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Import and Export It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Import and Export
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Import and Export I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Import and Export
We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Import and Export "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Import and Export
