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All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "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 "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) St Agnes May you never leave your marriage alive. When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita St Agnes
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje St Agnes Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw St Agnes
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett St Agnes "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) St Agnes
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) St Agnes "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks St Agnes
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens 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 "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) St Agnes I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton St Agnes
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) 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 I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) St Agnes I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck St Agnes
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain St Agnes In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland St Agnes
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 St Agnes There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau St Agnes
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein St Agnes It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) St Agnes
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) St Agnes If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous St Agnes
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt St Agnes "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, "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer St Agnes
