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They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
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-- Henry Kissinger Derby Storm In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Derby Storm Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac 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 "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Derby Storm
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Derby Storm Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
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The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) 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
pain Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Derby Storm With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Derby Storm
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Derby Storm There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Derby Storm
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Derby Storm Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Derby Storm
blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker 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 Derby Storm You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus 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 In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Derby Storm
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Derby Storm "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes 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 Derby Storm
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Derby Storm There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Derby Storm
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Derby Storm "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
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"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Derby Storm Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Nobody ever died of laughter.
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