And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh 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 People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Economic Development Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Economic Development
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Economic Development The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Economic Development
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Economic Development He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "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 Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Economic Development
We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Economic Development If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Economic Development
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Economic Development Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Economic Development
blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Economic Development Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Economic Development
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Economic Development It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Economic Development
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Economic Development "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 The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Economic Development
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, "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Economic Development The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire 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 "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Economic Development
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Economic Development "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) 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, Economic Development
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) 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. You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "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) Economic Development "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Never moon a werewolf.
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