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"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. 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 Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Youlgrave One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Youlgrave
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Youlgrave Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Youlgrave
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Youlgrave Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Youlgrave
I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Youlgrave I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Youlgrave
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) 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 Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Youlgrave It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Marriage is a rest period between romances. How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Youlgrave
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Youlgrave blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Youlgrave
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Youlgrave Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Youlgrave
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Youlgrave As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Youlgrave
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Youlgrave Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Youlgrave
"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Youlgrave "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Youlgrave
blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Youlgrave Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Youlgrave
