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In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Correze Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Correze
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 The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Correze If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Correze
In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Correze "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Correze
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Correze If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Correze
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Correze The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Correze
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy 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 He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Correze Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Correze
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Correze "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Correze
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Correze "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Correze
Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Correze If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Correze
If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Correze Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Correze
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Correze Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman 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 There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Correze
