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day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Property Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Property
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Property Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Property
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Property "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Property
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Property "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Property
"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Property Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Property
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Property The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "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 Property
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Property Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Property
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 A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
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impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Property
It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Property And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Property
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Property "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Property
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Property Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Property
