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"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Tillicoultry The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Tillicoultry
All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Tillicoultry I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Tillicoultry
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Tillicoultry "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Tillicoultry
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Tillicoultry "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Tillicoultry
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Tillicoultry It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Tillicoultry
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Tillicoultry People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Tillicoultry
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Tillicoultry Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Tillicoultry
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain 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 "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Tillicoultry "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Tillicoultry
"The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. 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 Tillicoultry "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Tillicoultry
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Tillicoultry "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Tillicoultry
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Tillicoultry Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Tillicoultry
