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When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Todi Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Todi
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Todi I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Todi
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Todi I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Todi
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 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 Todi The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Todi
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Todi Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Todi
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Todi Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Todi
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Todi He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Todi
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Todi Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Todi
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Todi 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 If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Todi
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Todi We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Todi
blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Todi In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Todi
