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"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Tansley "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Tansley
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel 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 Tansley "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) 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 Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Tansley
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Tansley If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Tansley
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Tansley I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Tansley
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Tansley "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard 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
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The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Tansley "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Tansley blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Tansley
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Tansley "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Tansley
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Tansley There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Tansley
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Tansley Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Tansley
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) 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 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 "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Tansley The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Tansley
