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He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
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-- Robert Frost East Mersea
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
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-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea The church is the great lost and found department.
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-- Albert Einstein East Mersea It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) East Mersea
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that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth East Mersea I could prove God statistically.
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-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 East Mersea
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner East Mersea May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) East Mersea
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) East Mersea Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. East Mersea
Marriage is a rest period between romances. Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
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-- Jenny Weber "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West East Mersea
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) East Mersea "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi East Mersea
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost East Mersea "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) East Mersea
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) East Mersea Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) East Mersea
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) East Mersea To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes East Mersea
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA East Mersea "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin East Mersea
