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Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Aberdeen, City of Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Aberdeen, City of
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Aberdeen, City of We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Aberdeen, City of
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Aberdeen, City of The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Aberdeen, City of
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) 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 Aberdeen, City of "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Aberdeen, City of
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. 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 Aberdeen, City of Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Aberdeen, City of
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Aberdeen, City of "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Aberdeen, City of
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Aberdeen, City of "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Aberdeen, City of
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Aberdeen, City of "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Aberdeen, City of
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Aberdeen, City of "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Aberdeen, City of
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Aberdeen, City of Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Aberdeen, City of
"Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) 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 You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Aberdeen, City of When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Aberdeen, City of
