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Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge 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 Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Preci Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Preci
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Preci "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 "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Preci
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Preci Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Preci
"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Preci "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Preci
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Preci Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Preci
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Preci You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
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Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Preci The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Preci
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Preci America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Preci
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Preci Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Preci
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Preci In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Preci
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Preci "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Preci
