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-- Arthur C. Coxe Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Blessington Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Blessington
When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Blessington 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 Unha Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Blessington
There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Blessington "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Blessington
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) 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 Blessington Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Blessington
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Blessington Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Blessington
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Blessington "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Blessington
Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Blessington Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Blessington
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Blessington "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Blessington
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Blessington A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Blessington
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Blessington In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Blessington
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Blessington "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Blessington
