"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Saxony-Anhalt Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
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Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "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) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Saxony-Anhalt "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
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Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "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) "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) Saxony-Anhalt blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
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Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Saxony-Anhalt What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Saxony-Anhalt
Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Saxony-Anhalt Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "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) Saxony-Anhalt
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
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- Mel Brooks Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Saxony-Anhalt
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Saxony-Anhalt We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
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Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Saxony-Anhalt Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
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Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Saxony-Anhalt Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
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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 I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Saxony-Anhalt A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers 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
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Saxony-Anhalt A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
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