A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Allier "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Allier
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Allier When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Allier
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Allier This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Allier
My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Allier The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Allier
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Allier "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Allier
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Allier You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Allier
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Allier There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Allier
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Allier "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Allier
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Allier "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Allier
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Allier Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars 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 average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Allier
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "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) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Allier What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Allier
