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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Genealogy Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Genealogy
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Genealogy When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Genealogy
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Genealogy Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Genealogy
"... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Genealogy Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Genealogy
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Genealogy We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Genealogy
We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa 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 Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Genealogy Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Genealogy
My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Genealogy "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Genealogy
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Genealogy Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Genealogy
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Genealogy Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Genealogy
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Genealogy Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Genealogy
Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Genealogy Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
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