Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre By Region Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth By Region
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and By Region 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 For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein By Region
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure By Region "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson By Region
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
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natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening By Region
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
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-- Michael McShane "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Use your own best judgment at all times.
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The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making By Region "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) His ignorance is encyclopedic
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
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-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) By Region
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
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- John D. Rockefeller 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 A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb By Region
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) By Region If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
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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 "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw By Region "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
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There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner By Region The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
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