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"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Penshaw Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Penshaw
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Penshaw I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Penshaw
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Penshaw Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Penshaw
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Penshaw The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Penshaw
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Penshaw Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Penshaw
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Penshaw Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Penshaw
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Penshaw The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Penshaw
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Penshaw If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Penshaw
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Penshaw Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Penshaw
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Penshaw Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Penshaw
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Penshaw Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Penshaw
