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Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Tallow Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Tallow
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Tallow To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Tallow
"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Tallow The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Tallow
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words 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 "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Tallow Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Tallow
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "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) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Tallow "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Tallow
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Tallow "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "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 "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tallow
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Tallow People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Tallow
"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) 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 Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Tallow The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Tallow
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Tallow Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Tallow
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Tallow It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Tallow
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Tallow 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 It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Tallow
