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Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Balzan University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Balzan
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Balzan Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Balzan
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Balzan I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Balzan
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Balzan Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Balzan
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Balzan Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician 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 Balzan
What's new? Most of my wife. If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Balzan Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Balzan
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Balzan A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Balzan
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Balzan Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Balzan
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Balzan Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Balzan
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Balzan "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Balzan
"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Balzan "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Balzan
