"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Littleton Panell "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
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The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Littleton Panell Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Littleton Panell
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Littleton Panell "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Littleton Panell
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Littleton Panell It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Littleton Panell
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "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) Littleton Panell "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Littleton Panell
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Littleton Panell Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Littleton Panell
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Littleton Panell 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 Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Littleton Panell
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous 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 Littleton Panell If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Littleton Panell
"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy 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 Littleton Panell If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Littleton Panell
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 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've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Littleton Panell The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Littleton Panell
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Littleton Panell In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Littleton Panell
