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"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Tisno My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Tisno
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Tisno I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Tisno
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Tisno "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Tisno
My other wife is beautiful. "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Tisno Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Tisno
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Tisno A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Tisno
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Tisno Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Tisno
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell 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
sea Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Tisno The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Tisno
"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni 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 Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Tisno A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth 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. Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Tisno
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Tisno If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Tisno
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Tisno I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Tisno
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tisno "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Tisno
