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"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "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) Dalbeattie "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Dalbeattie
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Dalbeattie Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Dalbeattie
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Dalbeattie "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Dalbeattie
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Dalbeattie It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Dalbeattie
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Dalbeattie He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Dalbeattie
Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Dalbeattie "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Dalbeattie
This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Dalbeattie A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Dalbeattie
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine 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 "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Dalbeattie It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Dalbeattie
Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Dalbeattie I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Dalbeattie
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Dalbeattie How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin 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 All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Dalbeattie
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Dalbeattie Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Dalbeattie
