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I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." 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 Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Stanley If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Stanley
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Stanley The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Stanley
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based 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 Stanley Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Stanley
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Stanley We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Stanley
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Stanley I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Stanley
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Stanley "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Stanley
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Stanley If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Stanley
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Stanley Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Stanley
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Stanley "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) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Stanley
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 Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Stanley Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Stanley
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Stanley I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Stanley
