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Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Grassington It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Grassington
"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." When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Grassington When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Grassington
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Grassington It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Grassington
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Grassington "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) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Grassington
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 The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Grassington Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Grassington
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Grassington If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Grassington
I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Grassington Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Grassington
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Grassington Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Grassington
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Grassington "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Grassington
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Grassington If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Grassington
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 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 Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Grassington Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Grassington
