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"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
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-- Elayne Boosler Personal Homepages "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Personal Homepages
"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) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Personal Homepages "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
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A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Personal Homepages Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
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Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Personal Homepages I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Personal Homepages
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
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There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Personal Homepages Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill 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 When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Personal Homepages I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Personal Homepages
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken 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 The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
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-- Chinese Proverb Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali 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.
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"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) And gain is gain, however small.
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what I have to give.
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-- Albert Einstein Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
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A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Personal Homepages He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "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, Personal Homepages
"I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Personal Homepages One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Personal Homepages
