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If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Civil Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Civil
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Civil Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Civil
"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Civil Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Civil
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Civil "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Civil
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Civil Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Civil
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 believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Civil "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Civil
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Civil It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Civil
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) 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 Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Civil Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Civil
And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Civil If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Civil
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Civil Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Civil
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Civil I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Civil
