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The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "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 Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Personal Pages Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Personal Pages
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler 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 "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Personal Pages Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Personal Pages
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Personal Pages Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Personal Pages
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Personal Pages To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Personal Pages
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Personal Pages Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "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) Personal Pages
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Personal Pages 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 "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Personal Pages
Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Personal Pages "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) 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 The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
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Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "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) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Personal Pages A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Personal Pages
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Personal Pages I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Personal Pages
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Personal Pages It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Personal Pages
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Personal Pages Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
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