The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Kymenlaakso An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
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Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous 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 Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Kymenlaakso When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Kymenlaakso
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Kymenlaakso "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Kymenlaakso
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) 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 Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Kymenlaakso "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Kymenlaakso
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Kymenlaakso "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w 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 Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Kymenlaakso
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Kymenlaakso Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita 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 Kymenlaakso
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Kymenlaakso Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Kymenlaakso
Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Kymenlaakso "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 Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Kymenlaakso
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Kymenlaakso If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Kymenlaakso
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Kymenlaakso There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Kymenlaakso
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Kymenlaakso "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Kymenlaakso
