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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Delgany Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Delgany
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Delgany We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Delgany
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Delgany "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 All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Delgany
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Delgany The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Delgany
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Delgany A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Delgany
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Delgany Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Delgany
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous 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 The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Delgany It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Delgany
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Delgany CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Delgany
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Delgany "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Delgany
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Delgany The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Delgany
"Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Delgany You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Delgany
