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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Ripley We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Ripley
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Ripley Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Ripley
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) May you never leave your marriage alive. Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ripley Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Ripley
"The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Ripley Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Ripley
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Ripley 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 I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Ripley
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Ripley In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Ripley
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Ripley You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Ripley
blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "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) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Ripley If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ripley
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 Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Ripley "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie 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 When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway 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 "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Ripley If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Ripley
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein 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 Ripley "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Ripley
