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The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Chats and Forums "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Chats and Forums
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "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 I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Chats and Forums "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Chats and Forums
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Chats and Forums "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Chats and Forums
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Chats and Forums "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Chats and Forums
Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Chats and Forums "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) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Chats and Forums
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Chats and Forums If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Chats and Forums
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Chats and Forums "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Chats and Forums
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Chats and Forums In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Chats and Forums
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Chats and Forums "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Chats and Forums
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Chats and Forums 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 Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Chats and Forums
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Chats and Forums One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Chats and Forums
