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Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Porvoo When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Porvoo
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Porvoo Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Porvoo
Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Porvoo "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Porvoo
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda 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" Porvoo Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Porvoo
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) 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 The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Porvoo "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Porvoo
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Porvoo It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Porvoo
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Porvoo When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Porvoo
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Porvoo 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 He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Porvoo
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Porvoo "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Porvoo
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Porvoo All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Porvoo
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Porvoo 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 Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Porvoo
