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blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Tremezzo I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Tremezzo
"What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Tremezzo Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Tremezzo
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Tremezzo If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Tremezzo
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Tremezzo Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Tremezzo
Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Tremezzo Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Tremezzo
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) 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 People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Tremezzo "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Tremezzo
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Tremezzo Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Tremezzo
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Tremezzo "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Tremezzo
"Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Tremezzo The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Tremezzo
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) 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
human "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Tremezzo "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Tremezzo
Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around 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 Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Tremezzo Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Tremezzo
