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Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Heinsberg To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume 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 "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Heinsberg
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) 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 Heinsberg Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Heinsberg
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Heinsberg I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Heinsberg
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Heinsberg "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Heinsberg
"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "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) Heinsberg Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Heinsberg
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Heinsberg Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Heinsberg
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Heinsberg It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 Heinsberg
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Heinsberg Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Heinsberg
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Heinsberg We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Heinsberg
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Heinsberg I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Heinsberg
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. 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 Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Heinsberg A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Heinsberg
