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"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Egremont "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie 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 Egremont
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson 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 Egremont When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Egremont
"There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "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) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Egremont A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Egremont
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Egremont To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Egremont
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Egremont Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Egremont
Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 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 Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Egremont We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Egremont
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Egremont In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Egremont
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Egremont There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Egremont
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Egremont Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Egremont
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray 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 Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "Think off-center." (George Carlin) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Egremont There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Egremont
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Egremont Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Egremont
