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Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Greatworth Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Greatworth
Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Greatworth Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Greatworth
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Greatworth We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Greatworth
Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Greatworth Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Greatworth
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Greatworth I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Greatworth
"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Greatworth Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Greatworth
blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Greatworth You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Greatworth
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Greatworth Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Greatworth
"To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Greatworth The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Greatworth
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 That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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 Greatworth The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Greatworth
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Greatworth Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Greatworth
