If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Letojanni I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Letojanni
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Letojanni "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Letojanni
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 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 "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Letojanni When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Letojanni
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Letojanni When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Letojanni
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Letojanni I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Letojanni
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Letojanni You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills 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 Letojanni
You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Letojanni Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Letojanni
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Letojanni If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "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) Letojanni
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Letojanni The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Letojanni
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Letojanni Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Letojanni
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Letojanni To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
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