How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Lower Normandy "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
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You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Lower Normandy By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Lower Normandy
Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Lower Normandy A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Lower Normandy
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Lower Normandy "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Lower Normandy
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Lower Normandy Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Lower Normandy
If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Lower Normandy "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Lower Normandy
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Lower Normandy Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston 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 Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Lower Normandy
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Lower Normandy "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Lower Normandy
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Lower Normandy Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Lower Normandy
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire 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 The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Lower Normandy "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Lower Normandy
blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Lower Normandy Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Lower Normandy
