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"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Bettona I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Bettona
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Bettona Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Bettona
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald 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 To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Bettona The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Bettona
Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch 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 To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Bettona And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Bettona
"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bettona Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Bettona
Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Bettona "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Bettona
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Bettona You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Bettona
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Bettona The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Bettona
In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Bettona 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 Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Bettona
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Bettona I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Bettona
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Bettona Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Bettona
