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"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Police I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Police
Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Police A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Police
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Police What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Police
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Police Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins 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 a The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Police
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Police I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Police
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Police To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Police
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Police "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Police
Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Police The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Police
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Police When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Police
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Police If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Police
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Police Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Police
