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Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Bovingdon Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Bovingdon
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bovingdon Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Bovingdon
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Bovingdon Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Bovingdon
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Bovingdon Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Bovingdon
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Bovingdon As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Bovingdon
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Bovingdon The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Bovingdon
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Bovingdon If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "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 Bovingdon
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Bovingdon Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Bovingdon
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Bovingdon I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Bovingdon
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "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 Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Bovingdon If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
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Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet 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 I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Bovingdon "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Bovingdon
