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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Property What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Property
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Property We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Property
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Property Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Property
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Property Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Property
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Property Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Property
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Property Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Property
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Property "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Property
When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Property Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Property
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) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Property "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) 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 In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Property
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Property "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Property
If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Property "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Property
