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"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Ratingen The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Ratingen
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Ratingen Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Ratingen
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Ratingen We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Ratingen
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Ratingen "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Ratingen
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Ratingen Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Ratingen
blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Ratingen "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Ratingen
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ratingen People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Ratingen
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Ratingen 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 Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Ratingen
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Ratingen And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ratingen
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Ratingen "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Ratingen
"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 The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain 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 Ratingen Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Ratingen
