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I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Government "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Government
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Government "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Government
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Government Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Government
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance 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 Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Government It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Government
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Government You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
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Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Government People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Government
I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Government What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Government
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Government "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 Government
Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Government Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "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) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Government "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Government
blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Government Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Government
