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If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Mestre Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Mestre
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Mestre Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Mestre
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Mestre It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Mestre
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Mestre The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Mestre
Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Mestre "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Mestre
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Mestre There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Mestre
"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Mestre Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Mestre
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Mestre History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Mestre
I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Mestre Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Mestre
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) 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 When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Mestre I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Mestre
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Mestre If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Mestre
