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Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Taipalsaari Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Taipalsaari
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Taipalsaari I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Taipalsaari
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 By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Taipalsaari If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Taipalsaari
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Taipalsaari The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Taipalsaari
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Taipalsaari He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Taipalsaari
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Taipalsaari I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Taipalsaari
blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Taipalsaari "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Taipalsaari
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Taipalsaari "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) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Taipalsaari
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Taipalsaari If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Taipalsaari
It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Taipalsaari A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r 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
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Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous 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 Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Taipalsaari It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Taipalsaari
