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"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) 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 If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Viborg The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Viborg
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Viborg Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Viborg
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Viborg Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "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) Viborg
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Viborg Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Viborg
And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Viborg The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Viborg
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "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) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Viborg Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Viborg
There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Viborg Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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 Viborg
"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Viborg Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Viborg
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Viborg Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Viborg
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Viborg "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Viborg
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard 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 Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Viborg Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Viborg
