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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Peterlee "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Peterlee
A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Peterlee I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Peterlee
"College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Peterlee Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Peterlee
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Peterlee The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Peterlee
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Peterlee "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Peterlee
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 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 They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Peterlee There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Peterlee
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) 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. I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Peterlee When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Peterlee
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Peterlee Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Peterlee
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Peterlee Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
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Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Peterlee In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Peterlee
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Peterlee "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Peterlee
