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Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Padasjoki Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Padasjoki
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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.
-- Crowf For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Padasjoki Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Padasjoki
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Padasjoki "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Padasjoki
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Padasjoki "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's 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 My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Padasjoki
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Padasjoki "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Padasjoki
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi 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 Padasjoki The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken 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 The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Padasjoki
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Padasjoki Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Padasjoki
Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl 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. Padasjoki 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 The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Padasjoki
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "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) 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 "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Padasjoki Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Padasjoki
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Padasjoki "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Padasjoki
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Padasjoki I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Padasjoki
