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not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill 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 Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Resources There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Resources
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers 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 Resources "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Resources
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler What do you take me for, an idiot?
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-- Yogi Berra Resources It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
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-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Resources
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
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"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
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-- P. J. O'Rourke All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
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Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
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-- Neils Bohr Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Resources As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "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) Resources
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Resources Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
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- Niels Bohr Resources
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
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-- Alphonse Allais Resources
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
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-- William Hazlitt Resources Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
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-- John Weitz, American Designer 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 Resources
"If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Resources When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Resources
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Resources There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Resources
