Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "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 Disability Resources Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) 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 Disability Resources
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Disability Resources The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Disability Resources
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 Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Disability Resources One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Disability Resources
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Disability Resources Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Disability Resources
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 Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Disability Resources "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Disability Resources
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Disability Resources "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Disability Resources
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Disability Resources The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Disability Resources
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Disability Resources An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Disability Resources A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Disability Resources
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Disability Resources The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Disability Resources
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Disability Resources If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Disability Resources
