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Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Organizations The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Organizations
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Organizations Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Organizations
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "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) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton 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 Organizations Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
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I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous 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" Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Organizations Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Organizations
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Organizations Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Organizations
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Organizations Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Organizations
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb 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 Organizations "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Organizations
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Organizations Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" 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 Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Organizations
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) 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 Organizations In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Organizations
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "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) Organizations I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Organizations
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Organizations "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Organizations
