I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Resko A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Resko
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Resko "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Resko
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) 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 love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Resko They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Resko
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Resko When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Resko
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Resko "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Resko
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Resko "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Resko
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha 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 Resko Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Resko
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Resko Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Resko
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Resko "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Resko
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Resko How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Resko
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Resko "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe The less their ability, the more their conceit.
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