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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Ballasalla Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Ballasalla
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 A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower 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 In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Ballasalla Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Ballasalla
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 During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Ballasalla "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Ballasalla
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Ballasalla No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Ballasalla
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Ballasalla The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi 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 Ballasalla That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Ballasalla
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll 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 "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Ballasalla "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Ballasalla
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little 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 Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Ballasalla 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 If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Ballasalla
The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Ballasalla If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Ballasalla
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Ballasalla "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Ballasalla
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "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) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Ballasalla "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Ballasalla
