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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan X We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop ... 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
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton X
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words X Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words X
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) X My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words X
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "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) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson X "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche X
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland X Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin X
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening X "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "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) X
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 X A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill X
"I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau X A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) X
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain X Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort X
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho X Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley X
The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson X It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) X
