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It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Ibsley I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "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 Ibsley
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-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
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-- Fr. Jerome Cummings The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Ibsley "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
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Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
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-- Ernie Kovacs Ibsley With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
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percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Ibsley
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Ibsley If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Ibsley
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Ibsley "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Ibsley
blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Ibsley Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Ibsley
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Ibsley He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Ibsley
"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi 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 Ibsley It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Ibsley
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Ibsley Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Ibsley
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Ibsley Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Ibsley
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Ibsley "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
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