blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "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) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Animal Welfare A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain 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 Animal Welfare
"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Animal Welfare 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 For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Animal Welfare
Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Animal Welfare A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Animal Welfare
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Animal Welfare Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Animal Welfare
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Animal Welfare "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Animal Welfare If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Animal Welfare
"Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Animal Welfare Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Animal Welfare
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Animal Welfare "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Animal Welfare
I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Animal Welfare "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Animal Welfare
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Animal Welfare Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Animal Welfare
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Animal Welfare "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Animal Welfare
