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If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Borders I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Borders
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 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 The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Borders He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Borders
"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) 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 There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Borders After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Borders
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Borders "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Borders
"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) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Borders "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Borders
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Borders The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski 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 A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Borders
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Borders If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Borders
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Borders "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Borders
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "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 Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Borders A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) 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 Borders
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Borders There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Borders
"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Borders All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Borders
