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Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Event Planning Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Event Planning
People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "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) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom 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) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Event Planning If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Event Planning
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson May you never leave your marriage alive. It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Event Planning When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Event Planning
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Event Planning If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Event Planning
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Event Planning "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Event Planning
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "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 When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Event Planning "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Event Planning
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Event Planning Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Event Planning
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Event Planning Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Event Planning
When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "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..." ( All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Event Planning I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Event Planning
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Event Planning "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Event Planning
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner 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 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) Event Planning There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Event Planning
