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The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Law "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Law
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Law "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Law
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Law This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Law
"Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Law Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Law
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) 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 He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Law You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Law
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Law "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Law
In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Law Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Law
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Law Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Law
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Law Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Law
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Law There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Law
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Law "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Law
