Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Somercotes When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "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 Somercotes
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. 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 "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Somercotes In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words 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 Somercotes
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Somercotes Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Somercotes
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Somercotes "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Somercotes
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Somercotes It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Somercotes
blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "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) Somercotes "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Somercotes
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Somercotes Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Somercotes
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Somercotes blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Somercotes
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) 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 Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Somercotes "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Somercotes
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Somercotes Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Somercotes
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Somercotes Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Somercotes
