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For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Pathology Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Pathology
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Pathology Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Pathology
Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Pathology Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Pathology
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Pathology Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Pathology
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. Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Pathology If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Pathology
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Pathology Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Pathology
"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Pathology He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Pathology
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Pathology Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Pathology
"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) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Pathology Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Pathology
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Pathology The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Pathology
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Pathology "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Pathology
