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A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt 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 "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Roncegno "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Roncegno
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Roncegno I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Roncegno
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Roncegno It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Roncegno
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Roncegno At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Roncegno
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Roncegno Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Roncegno
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Roncegno A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Roncegno
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Roncegno Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) 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 Roncegno
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Roncegno We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill 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 I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Roncegno
"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Roncegno Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Roncegno
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Roncegno Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Roncegno
Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Roncegno In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Roncegno
