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German Army Commandos - Over the command company Nagold, their order, their education and their structure is reported.
Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Military 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 Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Military
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr 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 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 "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Military A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Military
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Military The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Military
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "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') Military I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Military
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Military The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Military
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw 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 Military In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Military
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Military "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Military
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Military When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Military
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Military "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Military
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Military They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous 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 A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Military
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Military The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Military
