Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Schmallenberg Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Schmallenberg
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Schmallenberg Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Schmallenberg
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Schmallenberg Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Schmallenberg
Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Schmallenberg "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 "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Schmallenberg
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Schmallenberg In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Schmallenberg
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Schmallenberg I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx 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 That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Schmallenberg
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Schmallenberg Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Schmallenberg
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Schmallenberg A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Schmallenberg
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Schmallenberg "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Schmallenberg
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Schmallenberg It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Schmallenberg
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Schmallenberg "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Schmallenberg
