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The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Maldon Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Maldon
"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Maldon Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Maldon
"God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Maldon I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Maldon
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Maldon "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Maldon
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Maldon He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Maldon
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Maldon Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Maldon
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Maldon Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Maldon
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W 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 Maldon Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Maldon
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Maldon Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Maldon
A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Maldon "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Maldon
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Maldon Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Maldon
