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If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Events Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Events
"The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Events Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Events
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "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) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Events "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Events
"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Events I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Events
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 woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Events "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Events
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Events Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Events
Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Events A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Events
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "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) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Events Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Events
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Events I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Events
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Events We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Events
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Events "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Events
