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Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Cembra "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Cembra
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Cembra Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Cembra
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Anyway, 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,
ign It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Cembra "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Cembra
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cembra If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Cembra
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Cembra I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Cembra
I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Cembra Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Cembra
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Cembra "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Cembra
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Cembra Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Cembra
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Cembra What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Cembra
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All 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 Cembra Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" 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 Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Cembra "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Cembra
