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"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery News and Media "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins News and Media
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein News and Media Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor News and Media
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. The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol News and Media "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung News and Media
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) News and Media Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm News and Media
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher News and Media America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) News and Media
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) News and Media The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) News and Media
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) News and Media Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) News and Media
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) News and Media "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) News and Media
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 Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks News and Media Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) News and Media
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying News and Media You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern News and Media
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford News and Media If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit News and Media
