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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Evia "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) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Evia
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "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) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Evia Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Evia
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "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) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Evia I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Evia
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Evia The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) 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 Evia
Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w 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 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 That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Evia You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Evia
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Evia My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Evia
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Evia I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Evia
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Evia "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Evia
People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Evia As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Evia
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Evia In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Evia
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Evia It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Evia
