Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Nummi-Pusula Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Nummi-Pusula
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Nummi-Pusula I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Nummi-Pusula
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Nummi-Pusula An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Nummi-Pusula
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Nummi-Pusula There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Nummi-Pusula
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Nummi-Pusula "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Nummi-Pusula
"Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Nummi-Pusula What's new? Most of my wife. What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Nummi-Pusula
"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Nummi-Pusula Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis 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 Nummi-Pusula
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "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) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Nummi-Pusula "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Nummi-Pusula
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Nummi-Pusula Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Nummi-Pusula
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha 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
commun "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Nummi-Pusula Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nummi-Pusula
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "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) Nummi-Pusula Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
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