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He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap 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 Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Sarcedo Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Sarcedo
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Sarcedo To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Sarcedo
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Sarcedo 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 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 Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sarcedo
"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Sarcedo Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Sarcedo
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins 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 The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Sarcedo Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Sarcedo
Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach 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 Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Sarcedo If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Sarcedo
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Sarcedo My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Sarcedo
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Sarcedo The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Sarcedo
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Sarcedo The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Sarcedo
"Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Sarcedo An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Sarcedo
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi 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 The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Sarcedo His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Sarcedo
