Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
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-- Joan Crawford Central Ostrobothnia "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
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We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
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- George Washington Carver Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Central Ostrobothnia "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) He would make a lovely corpse.
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Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Central Ostrobothnia Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
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The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "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) Central Ostrobothnia 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 "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
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-- Kate Halverson If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Central Ostrobothnia "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar The multitude is always in the wrong.
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Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Central Ostrobothnia Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
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I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Central Ostrobothnia The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
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"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Central Ostrobothnia "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
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Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken 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. Central Ostrobothnia It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
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"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Central Ostrobothnia Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Central Ostrobothnia
"People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Central Ostrobothnia "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
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