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"Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Tomsk The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Tomsk
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville 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 How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Tomsk Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Tomsk
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Tomsk Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Tomsk
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "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) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Tomsk Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Tomsk
"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Tomsk He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Tomsk
"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Tomsk We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Tomsk Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Tomsk
May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Tomsk I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Tomsk
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Tomsk "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Tomsk
"I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens 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 Tomsk Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Tomsk
Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Tomsk "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) 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 Tomsk
