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"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Castletroy Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Castletroy
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Castletroy The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Castletroy
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Castletroy "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Castletroy
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Castletroy Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Castletroy
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "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) Castletroy "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Castletroy
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "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) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Castletroy With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Castletroy
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Castletroy Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Castletroy
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Castletroy "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Castletroy
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Castletroy Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Castletroy
"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Castletroy It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Castletroy
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Castletroy I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived 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 I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Castletroy
