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Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Y Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Y
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Y blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Y
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Y Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Y
Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Y There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Y
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Y "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Y
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Y For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Y
If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Y Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Y
A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Y Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Y
"God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Y "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Y
Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Y He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Y
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Y "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Y
