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Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Disabilities "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Disabilities
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Disabilities Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Disabilities
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Disabilities "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Disabilities
A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Disabilities "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Disabilities
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Disabilities It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Disabilities
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi 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 "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Disabilities The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "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) Disabilities
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Disabilities In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Disabilities
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My other wife is beautiful. Disabilities In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Disabilities
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Disabilities A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Disabilities
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Disabilities He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Disabilities
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Disabilities Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Disabilities
