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Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Military Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Military
"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Military Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Military
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Military "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Military
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Military "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) 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 After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Military
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "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) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Military The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Military
"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Military People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Military
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Military He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Military
In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Military A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Military
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Military "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Military
"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Military Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Military
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Military I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Military
