A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke G "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) G
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) 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 "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) G Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
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Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac G There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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.
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"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) G Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous G
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous G Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem G
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings G Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) G
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel G Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain G
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) G 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 "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison G "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford G
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger G Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) G
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time 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 When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna G "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
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