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To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Kanturk If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Kanturk
The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Kanturk If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Kanturk
Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Kanturk His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Kanturk
Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Kanturk I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Kanturk
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril "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) Kanturk I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Kanturk
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Kanturk "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Kanturk
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Kanturk It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Kanturk
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Kanturk "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Kanturk
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) 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 America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Kanturk The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Kanturk
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Kanturk Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Kanturk
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber 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 Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Kanturk A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "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 Kanturk
