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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 blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Birstall Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Birstall
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Birstall "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Birstall
And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Birstall Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Birstall
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George 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 Birstall "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Birstall
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Birstall "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Birstall
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Birstall Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Birstall
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Birstall Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Birstall
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Birstall 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 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 I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Birstall
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Birstall If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright 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 Birstall
This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Birstall Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Birstall
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Birstall "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Birstall
