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The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Government "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Government
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Government "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Government
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Government Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Government
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Government A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Government
"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Government The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Government
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Government "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Government
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Government "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Government
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Government Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Government
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (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 Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Government "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Government
More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Government "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Government
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government "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) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Government
