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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Vechta The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Vechta
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Vechta A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Vechta
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Vechta blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Vechta
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Vechta "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Vechta
The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Vechta A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Vechta
blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Vechta All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Vechta
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Vechta The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Vechta
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Vechta "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Vechta
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 Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot 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 I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Vechta The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Vechta
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Vechta In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Vechta
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "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) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H 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 Vechta "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Vechta
