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 "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer F If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa F
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham F We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw F
"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) F The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde F
I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. F "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop F
>From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton F Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright F
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley F There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe F
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke F Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous F
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "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) F blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday F
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 A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe F By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha F
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 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 F Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses F
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes F "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
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