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"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Birr In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Birr
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Birr Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Birr
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Birr "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 I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Birr
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Birr A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Birr
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
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-- Michael Winner "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Birr
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Birr "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
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You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Birr The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Birr
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Birr All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Birr
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Birr "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Birr
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Birr "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Birr
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Birr To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Birr
