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I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Religion All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Religion
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Religion "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) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Religion
Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Religion "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Religion
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Religion 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 Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Religion
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Religion The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. 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 Religion
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait 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 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 Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Religion Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Religion
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe 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 In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Religion The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Religion
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Religion Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Religion
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Religion When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Religion
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Religion blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Religion
"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 "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Religion Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "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 Religion
