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The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Monchique Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "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." Monchique
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Monchique I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Monchique
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Monchique Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Monchique
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Monchique If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Monchique
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Monchique "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Monchique
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Monchique "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Monchique
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Monchique The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Monchique
"I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Monchique The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Monchique
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Monchique Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Monchique
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Monchique "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Monchique
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign My other wife is beautiful. "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Monchique "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Monchique
