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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) History "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) History
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle History The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire History
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 When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW History "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. History
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle History Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) History
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard History To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) History
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) History A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben History
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) 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 Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce History "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke History
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright History It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
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Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) History "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) History
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) History If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland History
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin History If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz History
