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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 To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) M Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides M
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos M Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
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-- Henry Ford "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) M
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) M "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) M
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin M Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn M
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) M Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy M
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) M Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) M
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie M "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill M
Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde M Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln M
"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 Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham M You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln M
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) M University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings M
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage M May you never leave your marriage alive. "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia M
