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- George Burns The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "'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, Through the Looking Glass) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Kids If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Kids
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Kids "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Kids
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Kids I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Kids
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Kids Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Kids
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Kids I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Kids
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Kids "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Kids
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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 Kids There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Kids
"I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Kids [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Kids
Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Kids When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Kids
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Kids cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Kids
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Kids Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Kids
