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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Wuppertal "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Wuppertal
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Wuppertal "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Wuppertal
"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Wuppertal Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Wuppertal
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Wuppertal "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Wuppertal
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Wuppertal The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Wuppertal
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Wuppertal The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Wuppertal
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "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 Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Wuppertal "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
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"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar 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 The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Wuppertal Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Wuppertal
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Wuppertal Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Wuppertal
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Wuppertal "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Wuppertal
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Wuppertal I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Wuppertal