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I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields What's new? Most of my wife. Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Karis Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Karis
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Karis We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Karis
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Karis To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Karis
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald 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 Karis "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Karis
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Karis Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Karis
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Karis "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Karis
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 "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) 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 As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Karis There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Karis
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Karis Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Karis
In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "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) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Karis There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Karis
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Karis All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Karis
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Karis I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Karis
