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Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Wordsley The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Wordsley
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Wordsley Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Wordsley
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Wordsley Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Wordsley
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Wordsley The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Wordsley
Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaďs Nin I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "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) Wordsley "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Wordsley
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Wordsley Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wordsley
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Wordsley Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Wordsley
I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Wordsley If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Wordsley
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Wordsley Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Wordsley
My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Wordsley "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Wordsley
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Wordsley The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Wordsley
