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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Health "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) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Health
"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 Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Health You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Health
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 I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Health Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "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) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Health
Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Health In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Health
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "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 you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Health The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Health
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Health blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Health
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Health Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
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Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
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-- Clarence Darrow We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Health
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Health "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Health
"Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
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- Niels Bohr Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Health
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Health Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Health
