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blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Reading That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Reading "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "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, Reading
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Reading We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Reading
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Reading Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Reading
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Reading Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Reading
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Reading A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Reading
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Reading 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. Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Reading
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Reading Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Reading
He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Reading Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Reading
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Reading "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Reading
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Reading After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Reading
