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Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi 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 I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Strmule The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle 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 I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Strmule
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Strmule Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge 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 "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Strmule
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Strmule Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Strmule
Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Strmule If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Strmule
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T 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 A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Strmule "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje 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 Strmule
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Strmule And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Strmule
The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Strmule And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Strmule
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Strmule The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Strmule
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Strmule The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Strmule
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Strmule Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Strmule
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Strmule 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 a It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Strmule
