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Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Supplies and Equipment "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Supplies and Equipment
"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 How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Supplies and Equipment Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
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-- Mark Twain "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Supplies and Equipment
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Supplies and Equipment You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Supplies and Equipment
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Supplies and Equipment "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Supplies and Equipment
To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper 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 reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Supplies and Equipment "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Supplies and Equipment
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous 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 "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Supplies and Equipment We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Supplies and Equipment
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Supplies and Equipment We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
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The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Supplies and Equipment One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Supplies and Equipment
"Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Supplies and Equipment Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
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"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Supplies and Equipment Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
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-- Russell Baker My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Supplies and Equipment
May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Supplies and Equipment The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Supplies and Equipment
