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"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Motoring Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Motoring
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Motoring "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Motoring
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Motoring People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Motoring
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Motoring He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Motoring
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Motoring The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Motoring
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Motoring The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Motoring
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Motoring To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Motoring
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Motoring "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Motoring
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Motoring "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Motoring
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Motoring 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 The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Motoring
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "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) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Motoring My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Motoring
