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-- Scott Adams "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Benfleet My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Benfleet He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Benfleet
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Benfleet A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Benfleet
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Benfleet My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Benfleet
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "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) Benfleet Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "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 "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Benfleet
To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Benfleet To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Benfleet
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Benfleet Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Benfleet
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Benfleet The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Benfleet
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Benfleet Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Benfleet
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Benfleet "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) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Benfleet
"God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Benfleet Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Benfleet
