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"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) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Salaspils "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt 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 Salaspils
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Salaspils "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Salaspils
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Salaspils Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Salaspils
Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Salaspils This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Salaspils
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy 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. Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Salaspils If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing 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
worse tha Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Salaspils
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Salaspils If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Salaspils
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Salaspils Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Salaspils
To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Salaspils I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal 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 "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Salaspils
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Salaspils "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Salaspils
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Salaspils "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Salaspils
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Salaspils "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Salaspils
