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We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Religion Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "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 We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Religion
"If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Religion To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Religion
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 The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius 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 Religion The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Religion
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Religion If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Religion
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Religion To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Religion
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Religion Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Religion
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Religion 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Religion
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) 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 All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Religion A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Religion
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Religion The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Religion
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Religion It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Religion
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke 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. Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Religion They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper 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 Religion
