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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Congleton Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Congleton
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Congleton Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Congleton
May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Congleton Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Congleton
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Congleton When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Congleton
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Congleton Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Congleton
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Congleton "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, A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Congleton
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Congleton When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Congleton
The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Congleton "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 Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Congleton
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Congleton Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Congleton
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Congleton He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Congleton
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Congleton "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Congleton
