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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Accrington Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Accrington
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Accrington If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Accrington
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Accrington blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Accrington
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Accrington "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Accrington
"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Accrington Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Accrington
Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Accrington A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Accrington
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Accrington 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 True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Accrington
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Accrington As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Accrington
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Accrington "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Accrington
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Accrington 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 If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Accrington
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "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 Accrington "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Accrington
