An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "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) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Brenzone Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Brenzone
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Brenzone Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Brenzone
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Brenzone We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Brenzone
"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Brenzone The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
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-- Henry David Thoreau Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Brenzone
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Brenzone "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
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-- Claudette Colbert I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Brenzone
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Brenzone Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Brenzone
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Brenzone When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
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-- Cynthia H Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Brenzone
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) 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 When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Brenzone They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Brenzone
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Brenzone "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
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-- H.L. Mencken The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Brenzone
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) 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 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 Brenzone "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Brenzone
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Brenzone UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Brenzone
