"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Goodnestone Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Goodnestone
"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Goodnestone More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Goodnestone
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Goodnestone Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Goodnestone
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Goodnestone "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Goodnestone
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Goodnestone "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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" The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Goodnestone
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Goodnestone Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Goodnestone
There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr 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 I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Goodnestone I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Goodnestone
A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) 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 Goodnestone A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Goodnestone
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Goodnestone I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Goodnestone
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Goodnestone If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Goodnestone
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Goodnestone "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
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