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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. "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Shaw Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Shaw
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Shaw Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Shaw
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Shaw Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Shaw
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Shaw History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Shaw
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Shaw Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Shaw
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "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) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Shaw I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Shaw
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde 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 However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Shaw Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Shaw
"College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Shaw "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. 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 Shaw
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Shaw Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Shaw
"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Shaw Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Shaw
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Shaw Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Shaw
