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The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Caldbeck "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Caldbeck
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Caldbeck I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Caldbeck
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Caldbeck "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Caldbeck
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Caldbeck The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Caldbeck
>From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Caldbeck I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Caldbeck
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Caldbeck Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison 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. Caldbeck
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Caldbeck The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Caldbeck
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Caldbeck He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Caldbeck
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Caldbeck In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Caldbeck
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Caldbeck A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos 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 "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 Caldbeck
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein 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 "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Caldbeck Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Caldbeck
