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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Lowdham An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie 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 "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Lowdham
The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Lowdham Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Lowdham
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Lowdham blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Lowdham
I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Lowdham I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "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) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Lowdham
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx 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 "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Lowdham "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Lowdham
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Lowdham "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lowdham
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Lowdham The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Lowdham
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Lowdham Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lowdham
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Lowdham "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Lowdham
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost 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 Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Lowdham If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Lowdham
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Lowdham Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Lowdham
