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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Little and Great Eversden I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Little and Great Eversden
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Little and Great Eversden Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Little and Great Eversden
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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 No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Little and Great Eversden Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Little and Great Eversden
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Little and Great Eversden "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Little and Great Eversden
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Little and Great Eversden A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Little and Great Eversden
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Little and Great Eversden I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom 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.
-- Little and Great Eversden
"Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Little and Great Eversden The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Little and Great Eversden
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Little and Great Eversden Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Little and Great Eversden
"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) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Little and Great Eversden You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Little and Great Eversden
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 Little and Great Eversden When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Little and Great Eversden
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Little and Great Eversden "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Little and Great Eversden
