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I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Darwen Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Darwen
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "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 Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Darwen A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Darwen
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Darwen the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Darwen
"By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) 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 I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "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) Darwen There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n 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 Darwen
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Darwen Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Darwen
>From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Darwen I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Darwen
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Darwen A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Darwen
"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Darwen The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Darwen
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Darwen "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Darwen
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings 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 The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Darwen What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Darwen
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Darwen "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Darwen
