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In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Ardara The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Ardara
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Ardara I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Ardara
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Ardara It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Ardara
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Ardara The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back What's new? Most of my wife. Ardara
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Ardara Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy 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 Ardara
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb 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 Ardara "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Ardara
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Ardara If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Ardara
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Ardara "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Ardara
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Ardara The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Ardara
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Ardara A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ardara
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Ardara Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Ardara
