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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Madeira It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Madeira
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) 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 Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Madeira "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Madeira
It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Madeira "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) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Madeira
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 the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Madeira I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Madeira
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan 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 Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Madeira "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Madeira
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein 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 The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Madeira Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Madeira
I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Madeira Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Madeira
Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Madeira "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) 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 Madeira
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Madeira "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Madeira
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-- Brendan Hills I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Madeira "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Madeira
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Madeira Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Madeira
