Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Zaandijk 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 Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Zaandijk
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Zaandijk I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Zaandijk
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Zaandijk When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th 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
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"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Zaandijk Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
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The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Zaandijk It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Zaandijk
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Zaandijk "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Zaandijk
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "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) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Zaandijk And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Zaandijk
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 Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Zaandijk Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Zaandijk
"Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Zaandijk Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Zaandijk
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Zaandijk CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Zaandijk
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 Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Zaandijk We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Zaandijk
