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Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Finnmark The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Finnmark
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Finnmark Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Finnmark
"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) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Finnmark "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Finnmark
"I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Finnmark My other wife is beautiful. One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Finnmark
"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) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Finnmark Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Finnmark
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Finnmark Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Finnmark
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. 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 Finnmark "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Finnmark
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Finnmark You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Finnmark
Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Finnmark "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Finnmark
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "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) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Finnmark The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Finnmark
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Finnmark Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Finnmark
