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To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. May you never leave your marriage alive. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" 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 Walking A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein 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 "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Walking
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Walking Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Walking
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Walking "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Walking
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Walking "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Walking
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,
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Walking Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Walking
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Walking Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Walking
"Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Walking The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Walking
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth 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 Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Walking Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 Walking
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Walking Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Walking
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Walking "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Walking
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Walking There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Walking
