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In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" 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 Ossett Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Ossett
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Ossett "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Ossett
People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Ossett Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Ossett
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Ossett "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Ossett
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Ossett He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Ossett
I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Ossett Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Ossett
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 You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Ossett "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "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) Ossett
"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Ossett "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Ossett
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Ossett Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Ossett
"In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Ossett An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Ossett
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson 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 Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Ossett Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Ossett
