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"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Tabert Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Tabert
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Tabert "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Tabert
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Tabert The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Tabert
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Tabert The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Tabert
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Tabert The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Tabert
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Tabert "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Tabert
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Tabert I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Tabert
What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Tabert I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Tabert
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Tabert "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Tabert
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Tabert Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Tabert
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Tabert >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Tabert
