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Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. South Karelia It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan South Karelia
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill South Karelia Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show South Karelia
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker 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 I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) South Karelia "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland South Karelia
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch South Karelia A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson South Karelia
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) South Karelia My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) South Karelia
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier South Karelia If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) South Karelia
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) South Karelia As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 South Karelia
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch South Karelia Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill South Karelia
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude South Karelia It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken South Karelia
What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll 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 Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai South Karelia "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) South Karelia
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx South Karelia "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield South Karelia
