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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Home and Garden If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Home and Garden
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Home and Garden It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Home and Garden
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Home and Garden blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Home and Garden
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Home and Garden "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
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My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Home and Garden Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Home and Garden
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) 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 Home and Garden Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Home and Garden
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Home and Garden Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Home and Garden
"Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Home and Garden Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Home and Garden
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Home and Garden If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Home and Garden
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Home and Garden "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Home and Garden
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Home and Garden After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Home and Garden
