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Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Woodborough The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "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." The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Woodborough
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 "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Woodborough A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Woodborough
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Woodborough Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Woodborough
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Woodborough If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Woodborough
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Woodborough The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill 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 "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Woodborough
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Woodborough "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Woodborough
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) 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 Woodborough There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Woodborough
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Woodborough Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Woodborough
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Woodborough The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Woodborough
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 Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Woodborough Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Woodborough
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Woodborough To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Woodborough
