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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Birmingham If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Birmingham
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Birmingham Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton 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 Birmingham
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Birmingham Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright 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 Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Birmingham
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Birmingham Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry May you never leave your marriage alive. The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Birmingham
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Birmingham We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Birmingham
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 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 Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to 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 Birmingham Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Birmingham
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Birmingham Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Birmingham
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Birmingham I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Birmingham
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Birmingham Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Birmingham
"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Birmingham If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Birmingham
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "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) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Birmingham "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Birmingham
