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"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Country This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Country
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Country There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Country
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Country "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Country
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Country "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Country
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 The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Country I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Country
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Country Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Country
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Country "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Country
You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Country The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Country
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Country The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Country
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Country This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Country
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Country Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Country
