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Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Maine-et-Loire It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney 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 Maine-et-Loire
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Maine-et-Loire Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Maine-et-Loire
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "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) Maine-et-Loire The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Maine-et-Loire
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. 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 People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Maine-et-Loire 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 There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Maine-et-Loire
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Marriage is a rest period between romances. "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Maine-et-Loire Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Maine-et-Loire
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Maine-et-Loire I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Maine-et-Loire
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Maine-et-Loire People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Maine-et-Loire
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Maine-et-Loire The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Maine-et-Loire
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Maine-et-Loire I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Maine-et-Loire
All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Maine-et-Loire "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Maine-et-Loire
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth 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 Maine-et-Loire Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Maine-et-Loire
