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-- Agatha Christie Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Savonlinna Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
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-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Savonlinna "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
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The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
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-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
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-- George Bernard Shaw Savonlinna "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Savonlinna
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
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-- Anonymous Savonlinna Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
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tha Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
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Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Savonlinna Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
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-- Abraham Lincoln Savonlinna
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Savonlinna Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Savonlinna
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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--Malcolm X All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
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"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Savonlinna 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Savonlinna
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
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-- Billy Sunday "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Savonlinna Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Savonlinna
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Savonlinna The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Savonlinna
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Savonlinna "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
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