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"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Burton Latimer "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Burton Latimer
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Burton Latimer If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Burton Latimer
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Burton Latimer We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Burton Latimer
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Burton Latimer Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Burton Latimer
Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Burton Latimer A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Burton Latimer
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. 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 Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Burton Latimer There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Burton Latimer
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Burton Latimer Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Burton Latimer
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "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) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Burton Latimer Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Burton Latimer
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Burton Latimer The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Burton Latimer
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Burton Latimer Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Burton Latimer
"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Burton Latimer The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Burton Latimer
