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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Cricket A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Cricket
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Cricket Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Cricket
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Cricket I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Cricket
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Cricket "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Cricket
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Cricket "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Cricket
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Cricket Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
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"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Cricket Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Cricket
Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Cricket Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Cricket
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cricket Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Cricket
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Cricket Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Cricket
"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Cricket "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) 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 "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Cricket
