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Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Great Holland "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Great Holland
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Great Holland I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "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 The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Great Holland
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) 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 Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Great Holland Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Great Holland
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 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 Great Holland Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Great Holland
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Great Holland University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Great Holland
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Great Holland The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Great Holland
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Great Holland Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Great Holland
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Great Holland I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Great Holland
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Great Holland It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Great Holland
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Great Holland "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Great Holland
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Great Holland The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Great Holland
