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"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
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Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
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-- Sacha Guitry "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
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Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
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-- Paul Tillich I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Tartumaa
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
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-- Billy Joel After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
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-- Andrew Brown Tartumaa
Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Tartumaa Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
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-- Oscar Wilde Tartumaa
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Golf is a good walk spoiled.
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doing spying.
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* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Tartumaa
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
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-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Tartumaa
Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Tartumaa Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Tartumaa
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "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) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Tartumaa "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
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-- Abbie M. Dale Tartumaa
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Tartumaa A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Tartumaa
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Tartumaa Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
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produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Tartumaa
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
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-- Charles Evans Hughes Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
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