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I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Sollentuna Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Sollentuna
It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Sollentuna It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Sollentuna
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince 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 Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Sollentuna "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Sollentuna
It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Sollentuna 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 All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein What's new? Most of my wife. Sollentuna
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Sollentuna A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Sollentuna
"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Sollentuna "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Sollentuna
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Sollentuna Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Sollentuna
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Sollentuna Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Sollentuna
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sollentuna "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Sollentuna
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Sollentuna "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Sollentuna
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Sollentuna Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Sollentuna
