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"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Cantarana "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Cantarana
"I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Cantarana "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Cantarana
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Cantarana True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Cantarana
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cantarana "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Cantarana
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle 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 Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Cantarana Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Cantarana
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Cantarana I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Cantarana
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 He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Cantarana "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Cantarana
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 "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Cantarana He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Cantarana
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Cantarana True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Cantarana
Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Cantarana The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Cantarana
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Cantarana Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Cantarana
