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"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Transport To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Transport
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
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-- Anonymous When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
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-- Henry Miller Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Transport What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "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 Transport
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-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
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-- Brendon Behan Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Transport "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Transport
"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
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-- Jeremy S. Anderson "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
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- J. Paul Getty Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Transport
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda 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 Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Transport Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
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-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
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-- Wedding Toast Transport
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transport And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Transport
"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 Transport Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Transport
You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Transport "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Transport
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Transport "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Transport
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Transport "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Transport
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Transport Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Transport
