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I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Clifton I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Clifton
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Clifton You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Clifton
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Clifton "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) He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Clifton
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Clifton Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Clifton
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Clifton I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Clifton
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Clifton "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Clifton
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Clifton There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Clifton
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Clifton A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Clifton
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Clifton Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Clifton
He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Clifton Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Clifton
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Clifton I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Clifton
