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"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Shanagolden "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Shanagolden
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Shanagolden Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Shanagolden
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Shanagolden To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Shanagolden
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Shanagolden All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Shanagolden
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Shanagolden And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Shanagolden
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Shanagolden "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Shanagolden
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost 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 "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Shanagolden To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Shanagolden
"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 English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Shanagolden We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Shanagolden
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Shanagolden Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Shanagolden
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "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 If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "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 It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Shanagolden Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Shanagolden
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Shanagolden When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Shanagolden
