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A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Slunj "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Slunj
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "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) Slunj He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams My other wife is beautiful. Slunj
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) 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 Slunj "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Slunj
Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Slunj "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "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) Slunj
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Slunj There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Slunj
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Slunj Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Slunj
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Slunj The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Slunj
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Slunj Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Slunj
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Slunj Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Slunj
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Slunj And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Slunj
Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Slunj A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Slunj
