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"By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel 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 Troms The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Troms
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Troms The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Troms
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Troms I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Troms
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "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 Troms "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Troms
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Troms The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous 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, Troms
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Troms The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Troms
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "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 If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Troms The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
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"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop 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 A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Troms "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Troms
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Troms "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Troms
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Troms "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Troms
Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons 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 I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Troms Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Troms
