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Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Silloth 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 Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Silloth
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth 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 When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Silloth I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Silloth
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Silloth A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Silloth
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Silloth Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Silloth
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Silloth "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Silloth
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Silloth "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Silloth
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Silloth 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 When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Silloth
Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Silloth The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "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, Alice in Wonderland "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Silloth
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Silloth Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Silloth
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Silloth He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Silloth
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Silloth Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Silloth
