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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Northumberland "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) 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 "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Northumberland
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Northumberland I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Northumberland
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Northumberland An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Northumberland
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Northumberland If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Northumberland
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage 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 Northumberland Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Northumberland
Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Northumberland 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 "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Northumberland
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) 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 Northumberland "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Northumberland
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Northumberland Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Northumberland
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 "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Northumberland There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Northumberland
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Northumberland 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 Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Northumberland
"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Northumberland To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Northumberland
