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"Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." West Hallam I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff West Hallam
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. 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 "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) West Hallam "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies West Hallam
We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce West Hallam I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West West Hallam
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper West Hallam "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous West Hallam
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye West Hallam Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve West Hallam
This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire West Hallam This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) West Hallam
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons West Hallam It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly West Hallam
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd West Hallam The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz West Hallam
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld West Hallam "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) West Hallam
I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I West Hallam "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi West Hallam
blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a West Hallam The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) West Hallam
