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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Benalmadena We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Benalmadena
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Benalmadena "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Benalmadena
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Benalmadena "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Benalmadena
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Benalmadena 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 After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Benalmadena
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Benalmadena Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Benalmadena
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Benalmadena ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Benalmadena
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Benalmadena "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Benalmadena
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Benalmadena Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Benalmadena
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Benalmadena The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Benalmadena
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Benalmadena Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Benalmadena Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Benalmadena
