.. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton I Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon I
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) 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.
-- Anonymous I I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. I
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker I "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings I
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw I You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "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 I
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow I Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) I
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan 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 We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) I Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill I
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr I If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman I
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 Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht I "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) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford I
"Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay I He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh I
"One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher I Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "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) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence I
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley I Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, I
