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"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Geographical Regions Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Geographical Regions
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Geographical Regions Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Geographical Regions
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Geographical Regions The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "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 Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Geographical Regions
"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Geographical Regions Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Geographical Regions
"I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Geographical Regions A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Geographical Regions
When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Geographical Regions Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Geographical Regions
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Geographical Regions I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Geographical Regions
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Geographical Regions Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Geographical Regions
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Geographical Regions A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Geographical Regions
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Geographical Regions Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Geographical Regions
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Geographical Regions In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Geographical Regions
