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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Motoring Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Motoring
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Motoring If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Motoring
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Motoring My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Motoring
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Motoring Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Motoring
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Motoring The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Motoring
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Motoring Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Motoring
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Motoring "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Motoring
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Motoring "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Motoring
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker 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. In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Motoring I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Motoring
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 Motoring "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Motoring
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Motoring Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "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 Motoring
