For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne 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 I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Automotive "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Automotive
If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Automotive Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Automotive
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Automotive I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Automotive
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Automotive "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Automotive
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Automotive One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
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-- Bertrand Russell Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Automotive
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Automotive Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Automotive
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Automotive As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Automotive
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Hell is other people.
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-- Anthony Burgess "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Automotive
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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-- Shakespeare, William "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Automotive
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Automotive "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Automotive
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Automotive The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Automotive
