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2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey UOTC Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) UOTC
"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) UOTC If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) UOTC
Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward 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.
3) D Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams UOTC Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac UOTC
"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. UOTC "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard UOTC
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) UOTC Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes UOTC
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn UOTC Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous UOTC
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams What's new? Most of my wife. "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) UOTC "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin UOTC
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods UOTC Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 UOTC
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone UOTC And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o UOTC
Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) UOTC The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) UOTC
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. UOTC "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) UOTC
