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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 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 "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Waddington "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
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Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Waddington "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) 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 Waddington
"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Waddington To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Waddington
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Waddington Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Waddington
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Waddington May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) 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
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"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Waddington Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Waddington
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Waddington "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Waddington
Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire 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 "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Waddington He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Waddington
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Waddington Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Waddington
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Waddington blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Waddington
Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Waddington Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Waddington
