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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Lowther Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lowther
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words 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 "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Lowther Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Lowther
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Lowther "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Lowther
"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Lowther Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Lowther
The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Lowther Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Lowther
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Lowther University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Lowther
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Lowther The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Lowther
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 Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Lowther Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Lowther
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Lowther "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Lowther
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Lowther The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Lowther
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Lowther When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Lowther
