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A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Oratino "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Oratino
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "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) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Oratino Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Oratino
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Oratino Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Oratino
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Oratino "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Oratino
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Oratino I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Oratino
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Oratino "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Oratino
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn 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 We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Oratino 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 Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Oratino
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Oratino The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Oratino
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Oratino What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Oratino
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Oratino I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Oratino
"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes 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 "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Oratino If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Oratino
