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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Loughill Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Loughill
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Loughill We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Loughill
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Loughill Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Loughill
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Loughill "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Loughill
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Loughill 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 Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Loughill
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Loughill Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Loughill
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Loughill Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Loughill
"If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Loughill Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Loughill
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Loughill blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Loughill
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "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 Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Loughill When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Loughill
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Loughill We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Loughill
