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-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
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"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Arts and Entertainment He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
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-- Victor Hugo Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
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Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Arts and Entertainment This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Arts and Entertainment
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Arts and Entertainment Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Arts and Entertainment
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Arts and Entertainment Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) 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 Arts and Entertainment Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "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) Arts and Entertainment "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Arts and Entertainment
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Arts and Entertainment That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Arts and Entertainment "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Arts and Entertainment
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 blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Arts and Entertainment
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden 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 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Arts and Entertainment A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Arts and Entertainment
