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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) T Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) T
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford T If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo T
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton T "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) T
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. T Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous T
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber T As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) T
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler 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 "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) T By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce T
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle 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 The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. T What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "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 T
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana T "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) T
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant T When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician T
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board 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 I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln T This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) T
We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan T No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) T
