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"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Nossen Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nossen
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Nossen Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nossen
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Nossen "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Nossen
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Nossen Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Nossen
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Nossen I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Nossen
A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld 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 If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Nossen The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Nossen
"People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Nossen Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Nossen
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Nossen No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Nossen
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Nossen He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm 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 Nossen
I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Nossen If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Nossen
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "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) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Nossen Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Nossen
