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-- Stephen Leacock Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Maps and Views There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Maps and Views
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
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"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Maps and Views All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Maps and Views
No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Maps and Views Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
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Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
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blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke 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 The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Maps and Views No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
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"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais 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
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-- Oliver Herford A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Maps and Views For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Maps and Views
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Maps and Views Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
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I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Maps and Views Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views
"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) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Maps and Views Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
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"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats 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 Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Maps and Views The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Maps and Views There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
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