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"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Law 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 "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Law
Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Law "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) 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 "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Law
"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) 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 "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "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 Law Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Law
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Law Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Law
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Law "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Law
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Law If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Law
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Law I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Law
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "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, I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Law Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Law
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Law Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Law
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Law The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Law
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Law I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Law
