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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Neuchatel "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Neuchatel
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus May you never leave your marriage alive. Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Neuchatel The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Neuchatel
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Neuchatel A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Neuchatel
"I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster 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) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Neuchatel When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Neuchatel
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. 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 To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Neuchatel There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Neuchatel
He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Neuchatel Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Neuchatel
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Neuchatel The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. 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 I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Neuchatel
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Neuchatel Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words 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 "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Neuchatel
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Neuchatel If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Neuchatel
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Neuchatel Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Neuchatel
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Neuchatel If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Neuchatel
