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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Press Agencies "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Press Agencies
"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Press Agencies America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) 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" Press Agencies
"In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Press Agencies Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Press Agencies
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Press Agencies "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) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Press Agencies
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Press Agencies A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Press Agencies
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Press Agencies Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Press Agencies
"That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Press Agencies "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Press Agencies
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Press Agencies I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Press Agencies
"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Press Agencies Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Press Agencies
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Press Agencies "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Press Agencies
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Press Agencies "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 Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Press Agencies
