Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Rogaland "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Rogaland
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Rogaland Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Rogaland
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Rogaland Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Rogaland
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Rogaland This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Rogaland
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Rogaland "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Rogaland
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student 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 There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Rogaland Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Rogaland
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty 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 Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Rogaland "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Rogaland
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Rogaland Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Rogaland
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "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) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Rogaland Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Rogaland
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Rogaland Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Rogaland
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Rogaland The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
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