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"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 To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde 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 "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Camborne The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Camborne
"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Camborne We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Camborne The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller What's new? Most of my wife. Camborne
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Camborne A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Camborne
How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Camborne "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Camborne
"Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Camborne Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Camborne
People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Camborne I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Camborne
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Camborne Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Camborne
I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Camborne America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Camborne
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 "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Camborne To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Camborne
"We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Camborne May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Camborne
