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People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Gardening The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Gardening
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Gardening The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Gardening
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 My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. 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 "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Gardening Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Gardening
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Gardening I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Gardening
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Gardening Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Gardening
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Gardening Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Gardening
blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Gardening Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Gardening
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Gardening One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Gardening
If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Gardening "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 Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Gardening
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Gardening The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Gardening
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Gardening "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Gardening
