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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 Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Ampfield Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Ampfield
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Ampfield Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Ampfield
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Ampfield Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Ampfield
"In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Ampfield Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" 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 Ampfield
"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Ampfield 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 A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ampfield
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 Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Ampfield Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Ampfield
The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Ampfield Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Ampfield
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Ampfield All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Ampfield
My other wife is beautiful. Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Ampfield Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Ampfield
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 "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Ampfield Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Ampfield
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ampfield Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Ampfield
