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Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Pooley Bridge "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Pooley Bridge
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Pooley Bridge "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Pooley Bridge
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Pooley Bridge I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Pooley Bridge
Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Pooley Bridge "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
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Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Pooley Bridge Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Pooley Bridge
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Pooley Bridge Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Pooley Bridge
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 "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Pooley Bridge "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Pooley Bridge
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Pooley Bridge Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt 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 "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Pooley Bridge Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Pooley Bridge
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Pooley Bridge There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Pooley Bridge
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Pooley Bridge Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Pooley Bridge
