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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 Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Montcada i Reixac You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Montcada i Reixac
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Montcada i Reixac "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Montcada i Reixac
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Montcada i Reixac Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Montcada i Reixac
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Montcada i Reixac "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Montcada i Reixac
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Montcada i Reixac "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Montcada i Reixac
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Montcada i Reixac "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Montcada i Reixac
Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Montcada i Reixac No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Montcada i Reixac
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Montcada i Reixac 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 As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Montcada i Reixac
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Montcada i Reixac "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Montcada i Reixac
2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "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 blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Montcada i Reixac "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Montcada i Reixac
If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Montcada i Reixac The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
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