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"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) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Four Elms "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Four Elms
Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Four Elms "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Four Elms
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Four Elms "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Four Elms
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Four Elms My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Four Elms
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo 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 Unha Four Elms Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Four Elms
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Four Elms Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Four Elms
"I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) 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 If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Four Elms There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Four Elms
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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 Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Four Elms A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Four Elms
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Four Elms "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford 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 Four Elms
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 Unha When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Four Elms "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Four Elms
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Four Elms Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld 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 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 Four Elms
