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"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Craven District Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Craven District
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Craven District I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Craven District
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. 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 "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) 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 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 Craven District When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Craven District
I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Craven District I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Craven District
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Craven District "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Craven District
Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Craven District The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Craven District
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Craven District Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Craven District
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Craven District Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Craven District
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Craven District "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Craven District
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Craven District "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Craven District
Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Craven District Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Craven District
