"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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) "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) Districts A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Districts
blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Districts Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill 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 Districts "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Districts
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Districts "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Districts
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Districts Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Districts
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Districts Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Districts
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Districts He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
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"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Districts When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Districts
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Districts "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Districts
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Districts The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Districts
I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Districts I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
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