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"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Corofin "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan 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 Corofin
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Corofin 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 If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Corofin
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Corofin "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Corofin
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Corofin "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Corofin
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Corofin "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Corofin
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Corofin It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Corofin
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Corofin What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Corofin
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Corofin Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Corofin
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Corofin Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Corofin
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Corofin Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Corofin
"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Corofin I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Corofin
