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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" Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Agriculture If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Agriculture
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill 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 Agriculture Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Agriculture
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Agriculture Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Agriculture
"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Agriculture An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Agriculture
The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Agriculture To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Agriculture
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Agriculture 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 He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Agriculture
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Agriculture For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Agriculture
"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Agriculture "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Agriculture
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Agriculture If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Agriculture
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Agriculture Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Agriculture
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Agriculture The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Agriculture
