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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Autonomous Communities "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) 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 History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Autonomous Communities
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Autonomous Communities "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 blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Autonomous Communities
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "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) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Autonomous Communities A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Autonomous Communities
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Autonomous Communities Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell 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 Autonomous Communities
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 Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Autonomous Communities I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Autonomous Communities
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Autonomous Communities "'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, Through the Looking Glass) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Autonomous Communities
"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Autonomous Communities "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Autonomous Communities
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Autonomous Communities Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Autonomous Communities
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Autonomous Communities University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Autonomous Communities
I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Autonomous Communities "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Autonomous Communities
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Autonomous Communities Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Autonomous Communities
