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If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Eastling A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Eastling
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Eastling "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Eastling
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Eastling Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Eastling
A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Eastling A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Eastling
The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Eastling If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Eastling
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Anyway, 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,
ign They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Eastling "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Eastling
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Eastling "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Eastling
Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Eastling Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Eastling
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Eastling Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Eastling
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" 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.
-- Crowf "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Eastling The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Eastling
"Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "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) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Eastling The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Eastling
