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Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Portballintrae "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Portballintrae
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Portballintrae "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Portballintrae
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Portballintrae One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Portballintrae
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Portballintrae All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Portballintrae
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Portballintrae 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 "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Portballintrae
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Portballintrae "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Portballintrae
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Portballintrae "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Portballintrae
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Portballintrae 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 "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Portballintrae
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Portballintrae Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Portballintrae
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito 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 Portballintrae "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) 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 Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Portballintrae
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Portballintrae "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Portballintrae