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Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Egton Bridge People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Egton Bridge
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u 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 "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Egton Bridge Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Egton Bridge
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Egton Bridge An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Egton Bridge
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) 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 "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Egton Bridge Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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 Egton Bridge
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Egton Bridge Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Egton Bridge
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Egton Bridge What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Egton Bridge
In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Egton Bridge If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Egton Bridge
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "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) Egton Bridge "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Egton Bridge
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Egton Bridge Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Egton Bridge
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Egton Bridge "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Egton Bridge
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Man and wife make one fool. "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Egton Bridge Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Egton Bridge
