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"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem 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 Narva 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 "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Narva
"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Narva There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Narva
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Narva "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro 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 Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Narva
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Narva 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 There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Narva
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Narva I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Narva
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) 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 I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Narva Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "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) Narva
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Narva Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Narva
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 The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Narva "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "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) Narva
May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Narva I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Narva
Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville 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 There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Narva Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Narva
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Narva "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) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Narva
