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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Opocno It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Opocno
Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Opocno Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat 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 Opocno
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Opocno "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Opocno
"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer 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) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Opocno Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Opocno
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Opocno "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Opocno
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Opocno >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 The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Opocno
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 A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Opocno Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Opocno
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "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) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Opocno As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Opocno
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen 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 Opocno Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Opocno
You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Opocno 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 Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Opocno
Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's 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 I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin 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 Opocno Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Opocno
