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"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Marciana America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Marciana
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
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-- Mark Twain Marciana "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Marciana
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Marciana "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 If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Marciana
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Marciana I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Marciana
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Marciana "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Marciana
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marciana "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Marciana
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "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." A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Marciana The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Marciana
"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Marciana Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Marciana
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Marciana "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Marciana
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Marciana There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Marciana
When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Marciana The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Marciana
