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"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Languages I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Languages
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Languages There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Languages
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Languages Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Languages
Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "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) Languages "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "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) Languages
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Languages Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Languages
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 A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Languages "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Languages
Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Languages 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" In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Languages
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Languages You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) 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 Languages
"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Languages "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Languages
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Languages I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Languages
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Languages Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Languages
