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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sulkava Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Sulkava
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy 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. It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Sulkava "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Sulkava
Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Sulkava Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sulkava
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Sulkava In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Sulkava
Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sulkava "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
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The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Sulkava Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Sulkava
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 "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Sulkava Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Sulkava
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Sulkava He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Sulkava
"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) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Sulkava "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Sulkava
"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) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Sulkava "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Sulkava
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand 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 Sulkava If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Sulkava
