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For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Museums Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Museums
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Museums "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Museums
Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Museums "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Museums
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Museums Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Museums
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Museums A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Museums
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) 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 Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Museums He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Museums
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Museums Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Museums
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Museums "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Museums
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." 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
to that would be The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Museums "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Museums
blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words 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 When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Museums Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Museums
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Museums One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Museums
