Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "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 Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Midi-Pyrenees Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm 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.
-- Midi-Pyrenees
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. Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Midi-Pyrenees Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Midi-Pyrenees
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Midi-Pyrenees Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Midi-Pyrenees
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "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) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Midi-Pyrenees The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Midi-Pyrenees
"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Midi-Pyrenees "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Midi-Pyrenees
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Marriage is a rest period between romances. He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Midi-Pyrenees Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Midi-Pyrenees
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Midi-Pyrenees Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. 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 Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Midi-Pyrenees
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Midi-Pyrenees "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Midi-Pyrenees
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Midi-Pyrenees 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 Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Midi-Pyrenees
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Midi-Pyrenees I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Midi-Pyrenees
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Midi-Pyrenees If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Midi-Pyrenees
