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The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Central Bohemia Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Central Bohemia
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Central Bohemia "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Central Bohemia
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Central Bohemia The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Central Bohemia
Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Central Bohemia Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Central Bohemia
This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Central Bohemia "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Central Bohemia
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Central Bohemia Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Central Bohemia
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Central Bohemia Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Central Bohemia
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Central Bohemia Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Central Bohemia
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Central Bohemia "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Central Bohemia
Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Central Bohemia "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Central Bohemia
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) 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 During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Central Bohemia The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Central Bohemia
