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"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Bassenthwaite "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 Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "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 Bassenthwaite
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Bassenthwaite "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Bassenthwaite
"To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bassenthwaite "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Bassenthwaite
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Bassenthwaite Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Bassenthwaite
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Bassenthwaite I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Bassenthwaite
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Bassenthwaite "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Bassenthwaite
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Bassenthwaite However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Bassenthwaite
"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec 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 Bassenthwaite Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Bassenthwaite
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb 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 Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Bassenthwaite It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Bassenthwaite
"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 In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Bassenthwaite Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Bassenthwaite
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Bassenthwaite "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Bassenthwaite
