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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Outdoors "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Outdoors
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Outdoors I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Outdoors
"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) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Outdoors People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Outdoors
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Outdoors "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "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) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Outdoors
"People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Outdoors Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Outdoors
If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Outdoors I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Outdoors
You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Outdoors It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Outdoors
Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Outdoors A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Outdoors
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 It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Outdoors Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Outdoors
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 Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Outdoors The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Outdoors
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Man and wife make one fool. Outdoors Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne "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) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Outdoors
