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What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Burgundy Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Burgundy
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Burgundy Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Burgundy
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Burgundy Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Burgundy
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Burgundy "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Burgundy
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Burgundy There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Burgundy
Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Burgundy "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Burgundy
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Burgundy If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Burgundy
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Burgundy There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Burgundy
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Burgundy Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Burgundy
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Burgundy "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Burgundy
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Burgundy "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Burgundy
