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-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Ribadesella Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard 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 Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Ribadesella
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Ribadesella Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Ribadesella
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 He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Ribadesella "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Ribadesella
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Ribadesella Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Ribadesella
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Ribadesella When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Ribadesella
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Ribadesella It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Ribadesella
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little 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 The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ribadesella Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 "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) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Ribadesella
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Ribadesella >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Ribadesella
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Ribadesella Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Ribadesella
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Ribadesella Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ribadesella
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Ribadesella Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Ribadesella
