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The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Guillain-Barre Syndrome "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H 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 If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Guillain-Barre Syndrome
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Guillain-Barre Syndrome Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren 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 Guillain-Barre Syndrome
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner 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 "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Guillain-Barre Syndrome The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Guillain-Barre Syndrome
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Guillain-Barre Syndrome A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "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 A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Guillain-Barre Syndrome
"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Guillain-Barre Syndrome Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Guillain-Barre Syndrome
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Guillain-Barre Syndrome Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Guillain-Barre Syndrome
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Guillain-Barre Syndrome Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Guillain-Barre Syndrome
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Guillain-Barre Syndrome He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Guillain-Barre Syndrome
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Guillain-Barre Syndrome My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Guillain-Barre Syndrome
If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Guillain-Barre Syndrome I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Guillain-Barre Syndrome
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- 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.
-- Winston Churchill One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Guillain-Barre Syndrome My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 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 Guillain-Barre Syndrome
