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Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Motoring Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Motoring
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Motoring The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Motoring
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Motoring "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Motoring
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Motoring You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Motoring
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Motoring "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Motoring
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Motoring Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Motoring
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Motoring Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Motoring
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Motoring 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 Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Motoring
blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Motoring They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Motoring
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Motoring We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Motoring
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Motoring Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Motoring
