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Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Sant Just Desvern The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sant Just Desvern
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Sant Just Desvern 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) "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) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Sant Just Desvern
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Sant Just Desvern Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "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 Sant Just Desvern
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Sant Just Desvern "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Sant Just Desvern
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Sant Just Desvern If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Sant Just Desvern
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi 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 Sant Just Desvern Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Sant Just Desvern
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Sant Just Desvern All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Sant Just Desvern
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Sant Just Desvern Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Sant Just Desvern
"I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Sant Just Desvern If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Sant Just Desvern
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Sant Just Desvern "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Sant Just Desvern
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sant Just Desvern In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Sant Just Desvern
