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"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Loxwood "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Loxwood
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Loxwood Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Loxwood
Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Loxwood If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Loxwood
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Loxwood Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "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) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Loxwood
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Loxwood "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Loxwood
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Loxwood "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "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) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Loxwood
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Loxwood Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Loxwood
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Loxwood When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Loxwood
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Loxwood We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Loxwood
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "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) Loxwood My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Loxwood
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Loxwood Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Loxwood
