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Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Uppingham "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Uppingham
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Uppingham I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Uppingham
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Uppingham If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Uppingham
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Uppingham Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Uppingham
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Uppingham If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Uppingham
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "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 Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Uppingham "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Uppingham
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Uppingham "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Uppingham
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 difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Uppingham Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Uppingham
In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin 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 Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Uppingham We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Uppingham
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Uppingham Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Uppingham
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Uppingham Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Uppingham
