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"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Hollola Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Hollola
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Hollola An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Hollola
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Hollola "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Hollola
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Hollola Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Hollola
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland 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 Hollola All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Hollola
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Hollola Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Hollola
Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Hollola One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Hollola
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. 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 Hollola "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Hollola
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Hollola "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 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
time Hollola
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Hollola When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Hollola
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Hollola Marriage is a rest period between romances. "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) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Hollola
