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Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Genealogy Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Genealogy
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Genealogy "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) 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
de If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Genealogy
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "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 We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Genealogy In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Genealogy
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Genealogy I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Genealogy
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "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) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Genealogy Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Genealogy
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Genealogy If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Genealogy
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 Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Genealogy "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Genealogy
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Genealogy Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Genealogy
>From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "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) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Genealogy If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Genealogy
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Genealogy The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Genealogy
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Genealogy All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Genealogy
