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I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Clarinbridge Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
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The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Clarinbridge If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Clarinbridge
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Clarinbridge What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Clarinbridge
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 Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Clarinbridge When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Clarinbridge
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Clarinbridge He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Clarinbridge
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Clarinbridge Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda 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 Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Clarinbridge
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Clarinbridge "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Clarinbridge
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Clarinbridge Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Clarinbridge
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Clarinbridge "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) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Clarinbridge
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Clarinbridge You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Clarinbridge
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Clarinbridge "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Clarinbridge