"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Berchtesgaden "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Berchtesgaden
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Berchtesgaden You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Berchtesgaden
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Berchtesgaden To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
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I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Berchtesgaden Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Berchtesgaden
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Berchtesgaden Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
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"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain 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 You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Berchtesgaden Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Berchtesgaden
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and 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 "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Berchtesgaden Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Berchtesgaden
"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 Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Berchtesgaden Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Berchtesgaden
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi 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 Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Berchtesgaden 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 "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Berchtesgaden
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Berchtesgaden In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley 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 In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Berchtesgaden
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Berchtesgaden "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
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