"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Haute-Savoie "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Haute-Savoie
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Haute-Savoie "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Haute-Savoie
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle 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 "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Haute-Savoie In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Haute-Savoie
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Haute-Savoie The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Haute-Savoie He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Haute-Savoie
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle 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 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, Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Haute-Savoie "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "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 Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Haute-Savoie
If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Haute-Savoie 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 Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Haute-Savoie
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Haute-Savoie In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "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) Haute-Savoie
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Haute-Savoie Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Haute-Savoie
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Haute-Savoie Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
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I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Haute-Savoie Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Haute-Savoie
