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Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "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) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Hooverphonic "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Hooverphonic
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Hooverphonic "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Hooverphonic
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 "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Hooverphonic When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Hooverphonic
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Hooverphonic "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Hooverphonic
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Hooverphonic "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) 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 A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Hooverphonic
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Hooverphonic What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Hooverphonic
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Hooverphonic Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Hooverphonic
Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Hooverphonic Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Hooverphonic
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Hooverphonic "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Hooverphonic
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Hooverphonic Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Hooverphonic
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Hooverphonic Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Hooverphonic
