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It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Millbrook I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Millbrook
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Millbrook The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "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) Millbrook
"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Millbrook If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Millbrook
"The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Millbrook "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Millbrook
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst 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 Millbrook "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Millbrook
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr 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 Millbrook Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Millbrook
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Millbrook In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Millbrook
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Millbrook I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Millbrook
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Millbrook The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Millbrook
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Millbrook Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Millbrook "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Millbrook
