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Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "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) Fleckney "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Fleckney
If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Fleckney The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Fleckney
"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) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Fleckney Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Fleckney
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous 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 Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Fleckney 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 Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Fleckney
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Fleckney "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Fleckney
Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Fleckney "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Fleckney
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Fleckney What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder 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 Fleckney
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Fleckney "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Fleckney
Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Fleckney If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Fleckney
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Fleckney "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 "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Fleckney
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Fleckney I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Fleckney
