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We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Adisham "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Adisham
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 Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Adisham A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Adisham
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Adisham An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Adisham
"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Adisham "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Adisham
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Adisham If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Adisham
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Adisham There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Adisham
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Adisham Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Adisham
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Adisham We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Adisham
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Adisham Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell 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 Adisham
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Adisham I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Adisham
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Adisham There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Adisham
