"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Real Estate "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Real Estate
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Real Estate Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Real Estate
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Real Estate The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Real Estate
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
on at "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "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 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.
-- Crow I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Real Estate Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
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We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Real Estate I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Real Estate
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Real Estate I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Real Estate
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Real Estate Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Real Estate
"... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Real Estate Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Real Estate
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Real Estate Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Real Estate
"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Real Estate "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Real Estate
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Real Estate I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Real Estate
