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The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Geography All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Geography
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Geography I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Geography
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson 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 It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Geography Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Geography
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Geography "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Geography
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Geography Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Geography
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Geography A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Geography
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Geography If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "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, Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Geography
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Geography Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Geography
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Geography Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Geography
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Geography In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Geography
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "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) "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 is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Geography "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Geography
