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-- Virginia Woolf Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Internet Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Internet
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
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-- Anonymous Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Internet If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Internet
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Internet "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Internet
"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Internet "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Internet
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-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Internet Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "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 "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Internet
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Internet Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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"In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
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I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
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-- Henry David Thoreau Internet
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Internet An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Internet
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "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) Internet You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Internet
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 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 It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
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-- Ralph Mars [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
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