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Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Markfield Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Markfield
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods 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 Markfield If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Markfield
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Markfield Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Markfield
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Markfield Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Markfield
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril 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 I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Markfield "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Markfield
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 There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Markfield All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Marriage is a rest period between romances. Markfield
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Markfield Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Markfield
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Markfield Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Markfield
"I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Markfield "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) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Markfield
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Markfield This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Markfield
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. 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 Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Markfield There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Markfield
