There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Naxxar The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Naxxar
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Naxxar If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Naxxar
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 Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Naxxar The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Naxxar
I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Naxxar Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Naxxar
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Naxxar "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Naxxar
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Naxxar We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Naxxar
I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Naxxar 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 "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Naxxar
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Naxxar I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Naxxar
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Naxxar Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Naxxar
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Naxxar We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Naxxar
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Naxxar You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Naxxar
