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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Ancient Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Ancient
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Ancient "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Ancient
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Ancient Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Ancient
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Ancient Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Ancient
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "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) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "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 When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Ancient blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Ancient
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Ancient "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Ancient
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone 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 Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) 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
futur Ancient "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Ancient
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Ancient I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Ancient
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Ancient Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Ancient
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Ancient The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Ancient
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 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 A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle 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 Ancient "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Ancient
