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"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Braithwaite Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Braithwaite
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Braithwaite You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Braithwaite
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol 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 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. Braithwaite "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Braithwaite
"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Braithwaite It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha 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 There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Braithwaite
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Braithwaite This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Braithwaite
"Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The best defense is a good offense.
-- 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 Braithwaite "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Braithwaite
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Braithwaite Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Braithwaite
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Braithwaite Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous 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 I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Braithwaite
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Braithwaite This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Braithwaite
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton 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 "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Braithwaite No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Braithwaite
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Braithwaite The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Braithwaite
