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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Disabilities Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Disabilities
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) 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 When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Disabilities "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Disabilities
My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "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) Disabilities He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Disabilities
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "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) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Disabilities We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Disabilities
"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Disabilities Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Disabilities
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 I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Disabilities Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Disabilities
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Disabilities In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Disabilities
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Disabilities The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Disabilities
Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Disabilities There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Disabilities
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Disabilities 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 I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Disabilities
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Disabilities Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Disabilities
