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When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Personal Pages "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
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-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Personal Pages
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Personal Pages He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Personal Pages
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "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 An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Personal Pages "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Personal Pages
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Personal Pages "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Personal Pages
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Personal Pages In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Personal Pages
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Personal Pages There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Personal Pages
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Personal Pages "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) 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, A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Personal Pages
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Personal Pages Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Personal Pages
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Personal Pages The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Personal Pages
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Personal Pages Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "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) Personal Pages
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Personal Pages It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "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 Personal Pages
