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For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Property I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein 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 "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Property
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Property The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Property
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Property A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Property
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Property People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Property
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Property Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman 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 Property
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings 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 "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Property 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 "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Property
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Property Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) 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
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If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Marriage is a rest period between romances. The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Property For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Property
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire 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 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 Property Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Property
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Property Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Property
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Property Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Property
