The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun 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 Xaghra "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Xaghra
I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Xaghra The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Xaghra
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Xaghra blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Xaghra
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Xaghra A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Xaghra
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Xaghra "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Xaghra
"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) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Xaghra "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Xaghra
"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Xaghra A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Xaghra
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Xaghra They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Xaghra
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Xaghra Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Xaghra
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Xaghra Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Xaghra
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Xaghra "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Xaghra
