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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Picardie A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Picardie
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Picardie Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Picardie
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Picardie Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Picardie
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Picardie I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Picardie
"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) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Picardie Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Picardie
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Picardie You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Picardie
A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Picardie Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Picardie
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Picardie "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Picardie
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Picardie If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Picardie
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce 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 Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Picardie The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Picardie
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Picardie In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Picardie
