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You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller 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 The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Redbourn "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Redbourn
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Redbourn "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Redbourn
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Redbourn I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Redbourn
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Redbourn I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Redbourn
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Redbourn "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Redbourn
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Redbourn True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Redbourn
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Redbourn Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Redbourn
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Redbourn Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Redbourn
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Redbourn In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Redbourn
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Redbourn You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "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) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Redbourn
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Redbourn Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Redbourn
