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"One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Family It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Family
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Family ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Family
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Family Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Family
blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Family Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Family
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne 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) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Family It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Spinster: A bachelor's wife. If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Family
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Family Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Family
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Family "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Family
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Family As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Family
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Family I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Family
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Family We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Family
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "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 Family "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Family
