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Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
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learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
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"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Localities Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "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) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
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-- John Adams, dying words There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
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-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
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"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Localities You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
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"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
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-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Localities 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 Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
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As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Localities "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
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When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Two souls with but a single thought,
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-- Fredrich Halm Localities There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Localities
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
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-- Nikki Giovanni I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Localities
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Localities "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
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- Mahatma Gandhi Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
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I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
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-- Nick Mirov Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Localities Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
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-- Vincent Van Gogh "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Localities
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Localities The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
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