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Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. 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 Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Andros I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone 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 What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Andros
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Andros "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Andros
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Andros Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Andros
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Andros It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "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) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Andros
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Andros "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Andros
"Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Andros Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Andros
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Andros As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Andros
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Andros An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Andros
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Andros If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Andros
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Andros Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Andros
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Andros If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Andros
