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"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Leerdam I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Leerdam
The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Leerdam There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Leerdam
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "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) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Leerdam "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Leerdam
What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Leerdam No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese 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 Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Leerdam
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates 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 "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Leerdam "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Leerdam
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Leerdam "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Leerdam
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Leerdam "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Leerdam
I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Leerdam When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Leerdam
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Leerdam If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "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) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Leerdam
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Leerdam If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Leerdam
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Leerdam He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard 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 Leerdam
