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Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Roxboro The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Roxboro
"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Roxboro Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Roxboro
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Roxboro A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Roxboro
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to 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 If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "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 If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Roxboro I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur 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 Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Roxboro
"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Roxboro I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Roxboro
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Roxboro We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Roxboro
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 "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Roxboro Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Roxboro
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Roxboro Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Roxboro
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Roxboro The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Roxboro
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Roxboro Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Roxboro
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Roxboro 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 "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Roxboro
