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You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Germany Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Germany
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Germany Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Germany
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 Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Germany "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Germany
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Germany All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Germany
I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) 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 Germany When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Germany
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Germany Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Germany
You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Germany "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Germany
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Germany Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Germany
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Germany The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Germany
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Germany She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Germany
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Germany A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Germany
