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"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Personal Pages Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Personal Pages
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "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 I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Personal Pages Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Personal Pages
I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Personal Pages "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Personal Pages
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "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 Personal Pages "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Personal Pages
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Personal Pages Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Personal Pages
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Personal Pages "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Personal Pages
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Personal Pages A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Personal Pages
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Personal Pages "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Personal Pages
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Personal Pages Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Personal Pages
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams 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 Personal Pages "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Personal Pages
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Personal Pages In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Personal Pages
