"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) 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. I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt North Ostrobothnia Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson North Ostrobothnia
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) North Ostrobothnia The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill North Ostrobothnia
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 North Ostrobothnia I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) North Ostrobothnia
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito North Ostrobothnia "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
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"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) North Ostrobothnia Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. North Ostrobothnia
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley North Ostrobothnia "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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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) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th North Ostrobothnia I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
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-- Anne Sullivan North Ostrobothnia
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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-- William Blake A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
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-- Henry B. Adams North Ostrobothnia
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud North Ostrobothnia In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain North Ostrobothnia
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all 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 "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) North Ostrobothnia "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley North Ostrobothnia
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker North Ostrobothnia Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) North Ostrobothnia
