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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Burley Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Burley
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Burley Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. 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 Burley
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Burley Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Burley
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Burley No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Burley
Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "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) Burley A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Burley
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Burley A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Burley
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Burley "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Burley
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Burley The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Burley
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Burley We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Burley
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Burley "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Burley
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "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) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Burley Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Burley
