This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Property Developments Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Property Developments
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
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as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "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) Property Developments Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Property Developments
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White 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 Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Property Developments cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Property Developments
Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Property Developments Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Property Developments
Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker 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 "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Property Developments Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Property Developments
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Property Developments Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Property Developments
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Property Developments Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Property Developments
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Property Developments Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Property Developments
I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Property Developments The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Property Developments
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Property Developments Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Property Developments
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "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) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Property Developments It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Property Developments
