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A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Pohja Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Pohja
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "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) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Pohja If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Pohja
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Pohja He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Pohja
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Pohja It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Pohja
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau 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 Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Pohja The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Pohja
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 "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Pohja Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Pohja
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Pohja We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Pohja
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Pohja "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Pohja
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Pohja Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Pohja
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Pohja Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Pohja
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Pohja The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Pohja
