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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Bugbrooke True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Bugbrooke
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Bugbrooke Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Bugbrooke
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Bugbrooke "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Bugbrooke
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Bugbrooke In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bugbrooke
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Bugbrooke Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Bugbrooke
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 "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Bugbrooke Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Bugbrooke
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Bugbrooke He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Bugbrooke
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Bugbrooke I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Bugbrooke
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Bugbrooke Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Bugbrooke
"Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Bugbrooke "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Bugbrooke
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 never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Bugbrooke Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Bugbrooke
