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"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) 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" Elmesthorpe Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Elmesthorpe
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Elmesthorpe Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James 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 Elmesthorpe
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Elmesthorpe You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Elmesthorpe
"The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Elmesthorpe "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Elmesthorpe
"Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Elmesthorpe The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous 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 Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Elmesthorpe
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Elmesthorpe What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Elmesthorpe
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "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 "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Elmesthorpe If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Elmesthorpe
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Elmesthorpe It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Elmesthorpe
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Elmesthorpe "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) 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, Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Elmesthorpe
"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) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Elmesthorpe "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) 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 "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Elmesthorpe
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Elmesthorpe The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Elmesthorpe
