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Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Music I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Music
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Music The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Music
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Music The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Music
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure 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 A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Music "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Music
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Music Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Music
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Music A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Music A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem 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' The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Music
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Music A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Music
"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) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Music History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Music
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "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) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Music I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Music
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Music "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Music
