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Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Support Groups "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Support Groups
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 "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 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 Support Groups In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Support Groups
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Support Groups Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Support Groups
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "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 Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Support Groups Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Support Groups
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Support Groups Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Support Groups
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Support Groups Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Support Groups
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Support Groups "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Support Groups
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Support Groups The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 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 Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Support Groups
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Support Groups Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Support Groups
I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Support Groups Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Support Groups
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Support Groups Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Support Groups
