We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
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-- English Professor, Ohio University Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Vineyards There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
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-- Antonio Machado Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
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-- Jeff Raskin "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Vineyards
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Vineyards "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
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-- Billie Holliday Vineyards
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
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-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Vineyards I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
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-- Robert Benchley If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Vineyards
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
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-- Hen Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Vineyards The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
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-- Smith & Jones "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Vineyards
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Vineyards Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Vineyards
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
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-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Vineyards We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Vineyards
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Vineyards If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Vineyards
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert "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 All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Vineyards The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Vineyards
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Vineyards "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
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-- Herman Melville Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Vineyards
Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Vineyards All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Vineyards
I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Vineyards "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) 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 Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Vineyards
