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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Genealogy Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Genealogy
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-- Anonymous "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Genealogy You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Genealogy
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Genealogy "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Genealogy
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Genealogy Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Genealogy
"To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Genealogy To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Genealogy
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "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 The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Genealogy Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Genealogy
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Genealogy I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Genealogy
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Genealogy I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Genealogy
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Genealogy Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Genealogy
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Genealogy Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Genealogy
"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Genealogy I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Genealogy
