"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Badgers Mount And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Badgers Mount "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Badgers Mount
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Badgers Mount You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Badgers Mount
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Badgers Mount "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Badgers Mount
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Badgers Mount When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Badgers Mount
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Badgers Mount I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Badgers Mount
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Badgers Mount I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
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"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Badgers Mount No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Badgers Mount
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker 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 "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar 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 An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Badgers Mount In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Badgers Mount
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Badgers Mount How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Badgers Mount
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Badgers Mount Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
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