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I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Wisbech I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Wisbech
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Wisbech If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Wisbech
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Wisbech The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Wisbech
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Wisbech Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Wisbech
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Wisbech "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Wisbech
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 "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Wisbech Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wisbech
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Wisbech "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Wisbech
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Wisbech "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Wisbech
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Wisbech This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Wisbech
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
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average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Wisbech
"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Wisbech I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Wisbech
