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May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. 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 "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Birdwatching If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Birdwatching
>From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside 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 He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Birdwatching Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Birdwatching
"I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Birdwatching We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Birdwatching
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Birdwatching blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Birdwatching
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Birdwatching We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Birdwatching
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Birdwatching My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Birdwatching
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Birdwatching 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 Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Birdwatching
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Birdwatching I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Birdwatching
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Birdwatching ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Birdwatching
One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Birdwatching "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Birdwatching
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Birdwatching Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Birdwatching
