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"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous 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 "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Ethnicity The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Ethnicity
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "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) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Ethnicity If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Ethnicity
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Ethnicity "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Ethnicity
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Ethnicity We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Ethnicity
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Ethnicity "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Ethnicity
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Ethnicity "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Ethnicity
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Anyway, 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,
ign To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Ethnicity The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Ethnicity
Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Ethnicity The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Ethnicity
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Ethnicity To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Ethnicity
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Ethnicity When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Ethnicity
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Ethnicity Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Ethnicity
