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"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Foreign The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Foreign
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "Think off-center." (George Carlin) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Foreign I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Foreign
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Foreign Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Foreign
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Foreign Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Foreign
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Foreign I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Foreign
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Foreign May you never leave your marriage alive. The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Foreign
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Man and wife make one fool. We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Foreign The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Foreign
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Foreign "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Foreign
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Foreign "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Foreign
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "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 "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Foreign Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Foreign
What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Foreign A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Foreign
