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And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Government Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Government
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr 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 More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Government We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Government
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Government The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Government
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Government "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Government
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Government Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Government
Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "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) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Government Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott 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 Government
My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Government "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Government
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers 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 Government To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Government
ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Government If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Government
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Government Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Government
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Government >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Government
