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"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Bilsington What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Bilsington
Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bilsington Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Bilsington
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Bilsington "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Bilsington
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Bilsington Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "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) Bilsington
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Bilsington The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Bilsington
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Bilsington Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Bilsington
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Bilsington Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Bilsington
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Bilsington Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bilsington
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Bilsington Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Bilsington
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Bilsington Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Bilsington
"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Bilsington "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Bilsington
