My other wife is beautiful. "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Telecommunications A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Telecommunications
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman 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 "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Telecommunications "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson 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 Telecommunications
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Telecommunications The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Telecommunications
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Telecommunications "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Telecommunications
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Telecommunications "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Telecommunications
Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Telecommunications I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Telecommunications
"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) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde 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 In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Telecommunications To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th 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,
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Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Telecommunications We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Telecommunications
Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Telecommunications blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Telecommunications
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Telecommunications The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Telecommunications
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Telecommunications Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Telecommunications
