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"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Sweden Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Sweden
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud May you never leave your marriage alive. Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Sweden "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Sweden
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Sweden Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Sweden
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Sweden Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Sweden
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Sweden Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Sweden
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Sweden When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Sweden
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "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) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Sweden 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 "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Sweden
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Sweden "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Sweden
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "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) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Sweden Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sweden
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Sweden I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
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My other wife is beautiful. As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Sweden "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Sweden
