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All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Property You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Property
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Property 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 "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Property
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Property "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Property
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Property "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch May you never leave your marriage alive. Property
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 Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Property If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Property
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 In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Property A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Property
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Property "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) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Property
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Property Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Property
"Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Property The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Property
I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Property It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata May you never leave your marriage alive. "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Property
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Property When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Property
