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
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-- Dorothy Parker Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Home and Garden Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
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-- Michel de Montaigne If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Home and Garden
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Home and Garden Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Home and Garden
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche 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
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Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Home and Garden "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Home and Garden
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Home and Garden Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Home and Garden
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James 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, Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Home and Garden "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Home and Garden
If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Home and Garden "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Home and Garden
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Home and Garden "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Home and Garden
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Home and Garden "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Home and Garden
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Home and Garden "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Home and Garden
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Home and Garden "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Home and Garden
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Home and Garden The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST This is the fourth?
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