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I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Education All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Education
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Education You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Education
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Education Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Education
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Education Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "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) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Education
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone 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 If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Education All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "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) Education
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Education Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Education
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "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 If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Education I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James My other wife is beautiful. I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Education
Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Education The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Education
Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Education "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Education
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Education "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Education
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Education "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley 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 Education
