The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Auvergne I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
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The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Auvergne The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Auvergne
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Auvergne Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Auvergne
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Auvergne Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Auvergne
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Auvergne "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Auvergne
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Auvergne By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Auvergne
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Auvergne Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Auvergne
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Auvergne You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Auvergne
"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Auvergne Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Auvergne
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Auvergne In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Auvergne
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan 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 "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Auvergne 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 I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Auvergne
