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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Genealogy Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Genealogy
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Genealogy "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Genealogy
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Genealogy Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Genealogy
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Genealogy The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Genealogy
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Genealogy It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide 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 blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Genealogy
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein 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 "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Genealogy I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Genealogy
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Genealogy In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Genealogy
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael 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 Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Genealogy "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 Genealogy
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Genealogy Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Genealogy
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Genealogy "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "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, ignorance, g Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Genealogy My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Genealogy
