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There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Spennymoor Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Spennymoor
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Marriage is a rest period between romances. We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Spennymoor If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Spennymoor
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
a hundre The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Spennymoor I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th 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 The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Spennymoor
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Spennymoor "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Spennymoor
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Spennymoor The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Spennymoor
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Spennymoor "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Spennymoor
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) 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 Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Spennymoor To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Spennymoor
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Spennymoor "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Spennymoor
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Spennymoor Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Spennymoor
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Spennymoor It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Spennymoor
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Spennymoor Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Spennymoor
