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-- Les Brown If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Scotter The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Scotter
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 "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) 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 The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Scotter A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Scotter
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Scotter "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Scotter
.. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Scotter The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Scotter
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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 I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Scotter As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 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 In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Scotter
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "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 Scotter "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Scotter
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Scotter We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Scotter
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Scotter A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Scotter
"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Scotter They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Scotter
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Scotter It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Scotter
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Scotter "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Scotter
