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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. 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 I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Politicians "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from 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 Politicians
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson 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 It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Politicians The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Politicians
Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "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) Politicians 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 The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Politicians
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Politicians The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Politicians
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Politicians "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Politicians
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Politicians "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Politicians
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Politicians Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Politicians
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Politicians 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 That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Politicians
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Politicians Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore 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 Politicians
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) 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 We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Politicians The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Politicians
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Politicians "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Politicians
