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The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Libraries The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Libraries
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Libraries Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Libraries
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Libraries Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous 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 Libraries
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Libraries Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Libraries
"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 The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
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bre If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Libraries Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Libraries
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Libraries If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Libraries
blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Libraries Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Libraries
"A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Libraries There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Libraries
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Libraries "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) 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 "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) Libraries
Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Libraries If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Libraries
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Libraries "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Libraries
