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"What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Courtown In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Courtown
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 Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) 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 Courtown Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Courtown
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Courtown It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Courtown
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Courtown I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Courtown
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Courtown You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Courtown
With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Courtown Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Courtown
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Courtown "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
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I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Courtown How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Courtown
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "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) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Courtown As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Courtown
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "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." Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Courtown A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Courtown
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Courtown A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Courtown
