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I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Innsbruck Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Innsbruck
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Innsbruck Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Innsbruck
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Innsbruck He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Innsbruck
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Innsbruck "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Innsbruck
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Innsbruck Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Innsbruck
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Innsbruck "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Innsbruck
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Innsbruck Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Innsbruck
"The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Innsbruck Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Innsbruck
MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Innsbruck I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Innsbruck
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Innsbruck He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Innsbruck
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Innsbruck We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Innsbruck
