The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Limousin If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Limousin
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Limousin All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Limousin
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Limousin The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Limousin
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Limousin If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Limousin
>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Limousin "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Limousin
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "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 Limousin I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Limousin
"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Limousin The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Limousin
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Limousin The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Limousin
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Limousin Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Limousin
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Limousin When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna 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 "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Limousin
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Limousin Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Limousin
