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If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken West Rainton "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec West Rainton
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek West Rainton I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West West Rainton
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz West Rainton You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X West Rainton
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law West Rainton The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester West Rainton
"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller West Rainton 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 A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery West Rainton
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern West Rainton When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" West Rainton
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous West Rainton "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill West Rainton
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty West Rainton "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) West Rainton
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson West Rainton It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) West Rainton
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed West Rainton The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) West Rainton
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress West Rainton May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell West Rainton
