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"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Magazines and E-zines I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Magazines and E-zines
A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Magazines and E-zines The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Magazines and E-zines
A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Magazines and E-zines Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Magazines and E-zines
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Magazines and E-zines "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Magazines and E-zines
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "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) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Magazines and E-zines I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Magazines and E-zines Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
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-- Albert Einstein Magazines and E-zines
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Magazines and E-zines CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
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-- Calvin Magazines and E-zines
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Magazines and E-zines Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
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"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Magazines and E-zines "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Magazines and E-zines
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Magazines and E-zines Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Magazines and E-zines
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Magazines and E-zines To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Magazines and E-zines
