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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Semington 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 Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Semington
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Semington Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Semington
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Semington Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Semington
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Semington Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Semington
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) 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 Semington "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Semington
"The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Semington No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Semington
The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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. Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Semington People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Semington
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 blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Semington Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Semington
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Semington It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "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 Semington
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "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) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Semington Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith 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 Semington
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Semington Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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 I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Semington
