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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Easingwold As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Easingwold
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 Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Easingwold "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Easingwold
I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Easingwold If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Easingwold
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Easingwold I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Easingwold
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Easingwold "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Easingwold
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "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 If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Easingwold If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Easingwold
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Easingwold Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Easingwold
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Easingwold Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Easingwold
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Easingwold The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Easingwold
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Easingwold Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Easingwold
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Easingwold Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Easingwold
