If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Medjugorje LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Medjugorje
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Medjugorje Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle 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 For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Medjugorje
"The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Medjugorje Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Medjugorje
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Medjugorje "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Medjugorje
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Medjugorje An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Medjugorje
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Medjugorje The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Medjugorje
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Medjugorje Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Medjugorje
I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Medjugorje "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) 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 "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Medjugorje
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Medjugorje "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Medjugorje
Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Medjugorje Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Medjugorje
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Medjugorje A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
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