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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Sardinia A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Sardinia
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole 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 Sardinia Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Sardinia
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "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) Sardinia "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch 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 Sardinia
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Sardinia Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Sardinia
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Sardinia The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Sardinia
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Sardinia He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Sardinia
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Sardinia An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Sardinia
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Sardinia Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Sardinia
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Sardinia NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Sardinia
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Sardinia Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Sardinia
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Sardinia "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Sardinia
