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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle 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 I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Drenthe When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Drenthe
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) 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 Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Drenthe "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Drenthe
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Drenthe "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Drenthe
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Drenthe If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Drenthe
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Drenthe We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Drenthe
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Drenthe Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Drenthe
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Drenthe "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Drenthe
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Drenthe Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Drenthe
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Drenthe Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Drenthe
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Drenthe Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Drenthe
Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Drenthe "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Drenthe
