The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Cleggan Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Cleggan
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Cleggan "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, It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Cleggan
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein 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.
-- Crowf "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Cleggan A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Cleggan
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Cleggan 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 Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Cleggan
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Cleggan No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Cleggan
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Cleggan Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Cleggan
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Cleggan If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Cleggan
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 At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Cleggan After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Cleggan
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Cleggan "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Cleggan
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Cleggan "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Cleggan
If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Cleggan Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Cleggan
