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Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show N Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël N "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman N
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 N "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl N
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha N "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green N
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) N Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost N
"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 Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec N I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde N
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) N Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France N
Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) N A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer N
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald N "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop N
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley N A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. N
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and N cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley N
