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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Flanders Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Flanders
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Flanders It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Flanders
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Flanders "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Flanders
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Flanders Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Flanders
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Flanders "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "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) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Flanders
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Flanders The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "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) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Flanders
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Flanders If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Flanders
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Flanders There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Flanders
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Flanders A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Flanders
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Flanders "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Flanders
"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Flanders Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx 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 Flanders
