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Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Boroughbridge Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Boroughbridge
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns 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 A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Boroughbridge Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Boroughbridge
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Boroughbridge "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Boroughbridge
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Boroughbridge Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Boroughbridge
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Boroughbridge After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Boroughbridge
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Boroughbridge "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Boroughbridge
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Boroughbridge Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Boroughbridge
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Boroughbridge When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Boroughbridge
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Boroughbridge A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Boroughbridge
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Boroughbridge They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Boroughbridge
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Boroughbridge Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Boroughbridge
