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Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Warmington Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- 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. "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Warmington
"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Warmington People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Warmington
"Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Warmington "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Warmington
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song 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 Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Warmington I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Warmington
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Warmington The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Warmington
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Warmington The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Warmington
your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Warmington No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Warmington
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Warmington "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Warmington
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Warmington "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Warmington
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Warmington 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 Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Warmington
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "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." I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Warmington Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Warmington
