Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford W blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide W
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw W To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) W
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying W Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo 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, When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland W
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show W "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard W
No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) W "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) W
"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) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde W "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill W
Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) W There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) W
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) W Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless W
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through W CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. W
"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) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb W Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson W
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. It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein W Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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