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 I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith 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 "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Lye I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. 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 Lye Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Lye
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Lye Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Lye
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Lye Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Lye
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Lye The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Lye
Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Lye I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Lye
In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Lye "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Lye
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Lye If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Lye
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Lye This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Lye
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Lye When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Lye
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) 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 Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Lye He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Lye
