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"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Printing "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Printing
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Printing "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Printing
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Printing "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Printing
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Printing Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Printing
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Printing The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Printing
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Printing Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Printing
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Printing Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Printing
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Printing "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) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Printing
If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Printing You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Printing
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Printing Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Printing
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. 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 The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Printing Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Printing
