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A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Mousehole Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Mousehole
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Mousehole 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 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 .. 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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Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Mousehole "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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 Mousehole
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Mousehole When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Mousehole
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Mousehole When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Mousehole
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson 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) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Mousehole 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 Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
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"Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) 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 Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Mousehole What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Mousehole
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Mousehole Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Mousehole
"Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Mousehole Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) 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
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I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Mousehole Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead 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 Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Mousehole
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Mousehole Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Mousehole
