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"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Cochem "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Cochem
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Cochem America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait 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 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 Cochem
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Cochem It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Cochem
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Cochem "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 He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Cochem
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Cochem Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Cochem
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Cochem "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Cochem
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Cochem Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Cochem
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Cochem "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Cochem
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Cochem I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Cochem
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Cochem Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Cochem
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Cochem For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Cochem
