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If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Kirkcaldy Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Kirkcaldy
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Kirkcaldy He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Kirkcaldy
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Kirkcaldy "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Kirkcaldy
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Kirkcaldy Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Kirkcaldy
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Kirkcaldy "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Kirkcaldy
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Kirkcaldy My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Kirkcaldy
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Kirkcaldy Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Kirkcaldy
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "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 Kirkcaldy There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Kirkcaldy
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Kirkcaldy One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Kirkcaldy
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Kirkcaldy "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Kirkcaldy
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Kirkcaldy "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
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