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blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Olney "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Olney
I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Olney Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Olney
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Olney I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Olney
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Olney Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Olney
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Olney I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Olney
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Olney Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Olney
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril "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 Olney "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) 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 A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Olney
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling 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) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Olney "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Olney
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Olney All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Olney
"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Olney "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Olney
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "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) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Olney Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Olney
