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"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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" A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Fencing I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Fencing
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Fencing We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Fencing
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Fencing I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Fencing
"To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Fencing Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Fencing
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Fencing "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Fencing
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Fencing "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) 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 Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Fencing
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Fencing Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Fencing
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Fencing Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Fencing
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Fencing The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Fencing
"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Fencing We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Fencing
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Fencing The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Fencing
