Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
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-- Martin Luther King, Jr. May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
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-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Market Weighton "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Market Weighton
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
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-- George Carlin Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
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I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
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-- Erma Bombeck By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
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-- ROBERT FROST You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
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When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
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there will be a fish.
-- Ovid The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
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Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
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compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
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-- Mark Twain I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
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The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
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-- Henry David Thoreau He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
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You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
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-- Anonymous If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
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-- Joseph Addison He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen What does not kill me makes me stronger.
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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
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