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He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Abroad It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Abroad
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Abroad Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard 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. Abroad
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Abroad When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Abroad
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Abroad If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Abroad
"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) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. 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 You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Abroad We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Abroad
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Abroad What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Abroad
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Abroad Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Abroad
"I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Abroad Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Abroad
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Abroad "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Abroad
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Abroad If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Abroad
"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Abroad "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Abroad
