I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Applicance Repair Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Applicance Repair
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 "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Applicance Repair "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Applicance Repair
"I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Applicance Repair Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Applicance Repair
"I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Applicance Repair I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Applicance Repair
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Applicance Repair My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Applicance Repair
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Applicance Repair 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 Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Applicance Repair
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Applicance Repair Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Applicance Repair
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Applicance Repair "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Applicance Repair
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Applicance Repair Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Applicance Repair
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "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) Applicance Repair 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 Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Applicance Repair
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Applicance Repair English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. 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 ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Applicance Repair
