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A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Naul Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Naul
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign 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.
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Naul "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) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Naul
"In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Naul When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Naul
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Naul The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Naul
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Naul We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Naul
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Naul As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Naul
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 If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Naul I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Naul
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Naul "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Naul
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Naul While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Naul
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Naul If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Naul
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Naul "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 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 The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Naul
