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For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Herne A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Herne
"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Herne If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin "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) Herne
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Herne Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Herne
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Herne The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Herne
"I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) 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
convi "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Herne A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Herne
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Herne "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Herne
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Herne You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Herne
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Herne I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Herne
The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman 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 "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Herne A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Herne
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Herne Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Herne
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Herne Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley 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 Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Herne
