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Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Cambridge City "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Cambridge City
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Cambridge City We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Cambridge City
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "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) 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 "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) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Cambridge City "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Cambridge City
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Cambridge City Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Cambridge City
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Cambridge City When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Cambridge City
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Cambridge City The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Cambridge City
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Cambridge City "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Cambridge City
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Cambridge City "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Cambridge City
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
Uncl Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Cambridge City The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Cambridge City
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Cambridge City Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Cambridge City
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Cambridge City No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Cambridge City
