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-- Al Capone May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
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-- Cybi Research He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
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"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Goodbye, Everybody!
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Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra To keep your marriage brimming
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Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
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-- Sydney Smith Research You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Research
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
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- Henry Louis Mencken Research I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
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"Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Research The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Research
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
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-- George Benard Shaw Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
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-- Oscar Wilde Research Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
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"Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Research It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
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"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Research He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Research
"Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Research We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Research
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright 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) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Research Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Research
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Research Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
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