"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
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-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Zamora Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
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-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Zamora
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
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successfully Zamora "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
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them.
-- Robert Graves Zamora
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "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) Zamora The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Zamora
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Zamora My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
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-- Igor Stravinsky Zamora
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
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-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
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-- Virginia Woolf Zamora
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
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-- E. W. Howe Zamora I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
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I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
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tha Zamora Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
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-- John Adams, dying words Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Zamora
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Zamora The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
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-- G. K. Chesterton Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Zamora
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) 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 "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Zamora I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
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- Henry Louis Mencken The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Zamora
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Zamora Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Zamora
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe My other wife is beautiful. Zamora We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates 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 Zamora
