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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Alconbury The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Alconbury
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Alconbury "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Alconbury
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Alconbury "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Alconbury
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Alconbury "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Alconbury
Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Alconbury The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu 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 Alconbury
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry 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 "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Alconbury "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Alconbury
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Alconbury I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Alconbury
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "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) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Alconbury Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Alconbury
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "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) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Alconbury Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde 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. If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Alconbury
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Alconbury Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington 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 If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Alconbury "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "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 "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Alconbury
