The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Shipyards "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Shipyards
"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, ignorance, g If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Shipyards To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Shipyards
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Shipyards Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Shipyards
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy 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 I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Shipyards Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
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-- Mary Buckley No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Shipyards
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Shipyards Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Shipyards
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Shipyards "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Shipyards
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Shipyards In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
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-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Shipyards
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Shipyards People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Shipyards
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Shipyards Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Shipyards
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Shipyards Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Shipyards
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Shipyards Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
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-- Bertrand Russell Shipyards
