"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
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-- Groucho Marx Industries The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Industries
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
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-- Petrarch Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Industries
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Industries Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Industries
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
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-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
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-- George Bernard Shaw You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Industries "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Industries
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Industries "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
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-- Michel de Montaigne University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Industries
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Industries We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Industries
"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Industries If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
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-- Rogers "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Industries
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
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- Jean-Paul Sartre "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Industries
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Industries Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
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Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Industries Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Industries
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Industries Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Industries
