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"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Crafts "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Crafts
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Crafts For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Crafts
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Crafts Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Crafts
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. 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 There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 Crafts Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Crafts
Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland 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 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 I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Crafts I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Crafts
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Crafts Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Crafts
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,
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Crafts Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Crafts
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Crafts I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Crafts
What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Crafts 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 If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Crafts
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Crafts If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Crafts
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Crafts We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Crafts
