Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
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- George Washington Carver If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
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-- Dolly Parton Personal Pages In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
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-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Personal Pages Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Personal Pages
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
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-- Richard Mitchell, from Personal Pages When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
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These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
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-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Personal Pages Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
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-- Mme de Staël Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Personal Pages
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
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definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Personal Pages "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Personal Pages
"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Personal Pages "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Personal Pages
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be 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 Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
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-- P. J. O'Rourke Personal Pages If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
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-- E. W. Howe Personal Pages
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Personal Pages It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Personal Pages
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Personal Pages Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Personal Pages
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Personal Pages "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
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