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"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Emergency Services Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Emergency Services
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Emergency Services Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Emergency Services
Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Emergency Services He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Emergency Services
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "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 Emergency Services The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Emergency Services
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Emergency Services The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Emergency Services
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Emergency Services "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Emergency Services
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Emergency Services A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Emergency Services
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Emergency Services In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Emergency Services
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Emergency Services It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Emergency Services
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Emergency Services We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Emergency Services
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 gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Emergency Services History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Emergency Services
