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It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Ice Skating Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Ice Skating
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Ice Skating "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Ice Skating
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Ice Skating "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Ice Skating
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ice Skating Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Ice Skating
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous 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 Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara 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 I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Ice Skating Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 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 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 Ice Skating
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Ice Skating He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Ice Skating
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "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) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Ice Skating Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Ice Skating
I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Ice Skating Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Ice Skating
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Ice Skating What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Ice Skating
blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Ice Skating You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Ice Skating
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Ice Skating Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Ice Skating
