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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Kennett "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Kennett
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Kennett If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Kennett
I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Kennett Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Kennett
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Kennett Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Kennett
Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Kennett Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Kennett
The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Kennett You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Kennett
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Kennett When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Kennett
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Kennett I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Kennett
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 A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Kennett "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Kennett
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Kennett The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Kennett
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Kennett "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Kennett