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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Dublin Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Dublin
A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Dublin The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Dublin
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Dublin If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Dublin
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Dublin Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "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) Dublin
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "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) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Dublin "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Dublin
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," 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 May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Dublin It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Dublin
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Dublin Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Dublin
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Dublin Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Dublin
"Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "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) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Dublin Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Dublin
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Dublin I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Dublin
"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Dublin When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Dublin
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