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-- Wil Shriner Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
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- Moses Hadas in a review A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Inverin
CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Inverin You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Inverin
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Inverin "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Inverin
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Inverin "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "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) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Inverin
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Inverin Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Inverin
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Inverin The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Inverin
"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) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Inverin Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Inverin
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Inverin It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "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) Inverin
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Inverin Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Inverin
There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Inverin Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Inverin
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "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 Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Inverin Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Inverin
