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The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Arts and Entertainment The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Arts and Entertainment Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
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Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Arts and Entertainment "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Arts and Entertainment
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Arts and Entertainment Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Arts and Entertainment
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Arts and Entertainment We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
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 Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Arts and Entertainment Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Arts and Entertainment
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Arts and Entertainment
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Arts and Entertainment As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Arts and Entertainment
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Arts and Entertainment "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Arts and Entertainment
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Arts and Entertainment Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment
