Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "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 Internet "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
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-- Thomas Jefferson Internet
May you never leave your marriage alive. "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
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-- Mortimer J. Adler In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Internet Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Internet
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Internet There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Internet
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
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-- Wilfred Sheed blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Internet Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
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-- Dave Barry If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Internet
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
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-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Internet
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
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upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
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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 If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Internet The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
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-- Woody Allen The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Internet
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi 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 Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Internet "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
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-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Internet
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Internet "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Internet
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Internet Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Internet
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) 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 Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Internet Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Internet