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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Magnesia Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Magnesia
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Magnesia Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Magnesia
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Magnesia Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Magnesia
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Magnesia I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Magnesia
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "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) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung 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 Magnesia The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Magnesia
I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Magnesia Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Magnesia
blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Magnesia If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Magnesia
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Magnesia Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Magnesia
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) 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 Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine 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 "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Magnesia I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Magnesia
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison 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 Magnesia Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Magnesia
"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 "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) 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 blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Magnesia We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Magnesia
