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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Great Lumley She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "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) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Great Lumley
Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Great Lumley Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaďs Nin Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Great Lumley
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 "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Great Lumley If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel "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 Great Lumley
When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Great Lumley When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Great Lumley
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "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) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Great Lumley "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Great Lumley
I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Great Lumley "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Great Lumley
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Great Lumley You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Great Lumley
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi 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 I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Great Lumley Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Great Lumley
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Great Lumley Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Great Lumley
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 A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Great Lumley If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Great Lumley
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Great Lumley 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 If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Great Lumley
