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"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Economy Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Economy
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 Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Economy Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Economy
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Economy It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Economy
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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.
- Sir Winston Churchill Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Economy The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Economy
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 I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "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) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Economy Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Economy
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion 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 If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Economy I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Economy
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Economy What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Economy
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "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 Economy The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Economy
If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Economy "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Economy
"I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Economy The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire 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.
- Sir Winston Churchill There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Economy
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Economy The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Economy
