Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Gretton Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Gretton
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone 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 Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Gretton The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Gretton
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Gretton He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Gretton
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Gretton "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Gretton
Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov 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 You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Gretton Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Gretton
"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) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Gretton "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Gretton
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Gretton Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Gretton
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Gretton "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Gretton
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Gretton This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Gretton
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Gretton If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Gretton
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker 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 We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Gretton Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Gretton
