If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Kill O'The Grange Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Kill O'The Grange
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "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) They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Kill O'The Grange Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Kill O'The Grange
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Kill O'The Grange Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Kill O'The Grange
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars 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 I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Kill O'The Grange If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Kill O'The Grange
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Kill O'The Grange Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Kill O'The Grange
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Kill O'The Grange "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Kill O'The Grange
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Kill O'The Grange Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Kill O'The Grange
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Kill O'The Grange My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Kill O'The Grange
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Kill O'The Grange Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Kill O'The Grange
In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Kill O'The Grange Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Kill O'The Grange
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Kill O'The Grange "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "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) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Kill O'The Grange
