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-- Calvin "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine 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 I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Cheshire Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Cheshire
"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Cheshire "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Cheshire
Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen 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 Cheshire Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Cheshire
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte 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 Cheshire There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Cheshire
"I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Cheshire "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Cheshire
"... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Cheshire My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Cheshire
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Cheshire There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Cheshire
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Cheshire Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Cheshire
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Cheshire "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "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 Cheshire
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Cheshire "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Cheshire
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, 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) Cheshire 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 Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Cheshire
