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To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Pezinok Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Pezinok
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) 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 The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Pezinok I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Pezinok
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Pezinok Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Pezinok
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "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 blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Pezinok The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Pezinok
When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Pezinok "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Pezinok
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Pezinok It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Pezinok
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Pezinok Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Pezinok
We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Pezinok Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Pezinok
"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) 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 "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Pezinok The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Pezinok
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Pezinok "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Pezinok
Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Pezinok I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Pezinok
