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"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Guileen Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
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Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Guileen Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Guileen
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Guileen "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Guileen
"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Guileen 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 Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Guileen
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Guileen Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Guileen
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Guileen "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Guileen
"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Guileen I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Guileen
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Guileen Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Guileen
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t 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 Guileen The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) 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 Guileen
CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Guileen Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Guileen
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
expect i A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Guileen Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Guileen
