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Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) 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? It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Martial Arts Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Martial Arts
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Martial Arts Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Martial Arts
"Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Martial Arts "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Martial Arts
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Martial Arts All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Martial Arts
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Martial Arts Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Martial Arts
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Martial Arts Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Martial Arts
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Martial Arts Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Martial Arts
"The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Martial Arts We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Martial Arts
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Martial Arts The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Martial Arts
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Martial Arts "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Martial Arts
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "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 will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Martial Arts "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Martial Arts
