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"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Aston In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Aston
"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) 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 Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Aston Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Aston
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Aston When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Aston
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Aston "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Aston
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot 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 We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Aston This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Aston
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Aston Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Aston
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl 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 Aston Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Aston
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Aston He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Aston
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Aston There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Aston
Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Aston "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Aston
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Aston "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Aston
