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The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Bredbury Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bredbury
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Bredbury He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Bredbury
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Bredbury Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Bredbury
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Bredbury "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Bredbury
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Bredbury Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Bredbury
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Bredbury One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Bredbury
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston 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 Bredbury A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Bredbury
"Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Bredbury Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Bredbury
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Bredbury A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress 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 "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Bredbury
A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Bredbury "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Bredbury
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Bredbury No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Bredbury
