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Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Witney "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Witney
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Witney He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Witney
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Witney History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Witney
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "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) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Witney Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Witney
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Witney Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Witney
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Witney Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Witney
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Witney "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin May you never leave your marriage alive. Witney
Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Witney A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Witney
"By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Witney 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 "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Witney
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Witney Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Witney
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Witney "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Witney
