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"I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Oporto and the North I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Oporto and the North
"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 >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Oporto and the North The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein 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 The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Oporto and the North
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Oporto and the North "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Oporto and the North
"Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Oporto and the North Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Oporto and the North
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Oporto and the North We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) My other wife is beautiful. Oporto and the North
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Oporto and the North Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Oporto and the North
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Oporto and the North Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Oporto and the North
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Oporto and the North A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Oporto and the North
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh 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 Oporto and the North A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Oporto and the North
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Oporto and the North Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Oporto and the North
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Oporto and the North The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Oporto and the North
