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blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Smethwick As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. 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 Smethwick
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Smethwick "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Smethwick
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Smethwick If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Smethwick
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 We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Smethwick "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Smethwick
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Smethwick If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Smethwick
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra 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 Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Smethwick "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Smethwick
Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Smethwick "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Smethwick
Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. 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 blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Smethwick 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 Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Smethwick
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Smethwick Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Smethwick
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Smethwick The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Smethwick
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Smethwick The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Smethwick
