It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Gijon I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Gijon
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "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) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Gijon I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Gijon
The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Gijon Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Gijon
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Gijon "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) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Gijon
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Gijon Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Gijon
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) 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 No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Gijon Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Gijon
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Gijon We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Gijon
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Gijon There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Gijon
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Gijon What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) 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 Gijon
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Gijon Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Gijon
"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 optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Gijon If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Gijon
