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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Oldenburg I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous 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 Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Oldenburg
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Oldenburg 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 When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Oldenburg
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 Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce 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 Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Oldenburg The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Oldenburg
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Oldenburg A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Oldenburg
"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Oldenburg Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Oldenburg
Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Oldenburg "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Oldenburg
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Oldenburg "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
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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 Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Oldenburg "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Oldenburg
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Oldenburg Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Oldenburg
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Oldenburg Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Oldenburg
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Oldenburg I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Oldenburg
