"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Animals My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Animals
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 The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Animals Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Animals
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Animals People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Animals
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Animals He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Animals
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Animals "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Animals
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. 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. Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Animals Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Animals
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Animals If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Animals
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Animals "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Animals
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Animals We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Animals
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Animals "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Animals
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Animals The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Animals
