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"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "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) Eccles 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 Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Eccles
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Eccles Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Eccles
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 Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Eccles Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Eccles
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Eccles I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Eccles
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Eccles Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Eccles
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Eccles Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Eccles
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" People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Eccles Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Eccles
"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 A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Eccles Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Eccles
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Eccles Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Eccles
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Eccles Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Eccles
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Eccles A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Eccles
