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-- Henry Ford Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Computers and Internet Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Computers and Internet
He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "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 The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Computers and Internet May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Computers and Internet
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Computers and Internet It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous 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) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Computers and Internet
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Computers and Internet Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
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Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
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-- Anita Wise God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Computers and Internet "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
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"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Computers and Internet Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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-- Maya Angelou Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Computers and Internet
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Computers and Internet "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
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couldn't cha A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Computers and Internet
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Computers and Internet blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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-- Flannery O'Connor Computers and Internet
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Computers and Internet "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Computers and Internet
Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Computers and Internet If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Computers and Internet
