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"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Whitwell Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Whitwell
"I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Whitwell "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "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) Whitwell
In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "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 Whitwell I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley 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 I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Whitwell
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Whitwell "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whitwell
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Whitwell When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Whitwell
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Whitwell Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Whitwell
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Whitwell She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Whitwell
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Whitwell The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Whitwell
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Whitwell "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Whitwell
"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) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Whitwell Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Whitwell
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Whitwell My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Whitwell
