"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Connemara Pony Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Connemara Pony
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Connemara Pony It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Connemara Pony
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Connemara Pony Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Connemara Pony
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Connemara Pony Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Connemara Pony
"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Connemara Pony Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Connemara Pony
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Connemara Pony Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Connemara Pony
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Connemara Pony Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
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Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "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 He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Connemara Pony When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Connemara Pony
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Connemara Pony The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Connemara Pony
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Connemara Pony I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Connemara Pony
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Connemara Pony "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "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 You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
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