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Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Mansfield Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Mansfield
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Mansfield A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Mansfield
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man 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 "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Mansfield Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Mansfield
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Mansfield Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Mansfield
My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Mansfield Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Mansfield
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Mansfield The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Mansfield
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Mansfield Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Mansfield
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Mansfield My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Mansfield
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) 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, Mansfield "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Mansfield
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Mansfield That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Mansfield
"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "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) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Mansfield "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Mansfield
