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"People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Motoring "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Motoring
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Motoring He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Motoring
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Motoring "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Motoring
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Motoring He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Motoring
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Motoring A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Motoring
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Motoring "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Motoring
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Motoring "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Motoring
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Motoring An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Motoring
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Motoring There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Motoring
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Motoring What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Motoring
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 There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Motoring We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Motoring
