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You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Grantham "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) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Grantham
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Grantham Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Grantham
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Grantham "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Grantham
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "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) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Grantham The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Grantham
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Grantham To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Grantham
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Grantham "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) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Grantham
Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Man and wife make one fool. What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Grantham 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 Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Grantham
They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Grantham Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Grantham
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Grantham A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Grantham
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Grantham I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Grantham
"There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Grantham I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Grantham
