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If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Armed Forces Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Armed Forces
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Armed Forces The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Armed Forces
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Armed Forces Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Armed Forces
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Armed Forces "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Armed Forces
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Armed Forces When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Armed Forces
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Armed Forces We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Armed Forces
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 Armed Forces When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Armed Forces
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Armed Forces "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Armed Forces
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "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) Armed Forces "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Armed Forces
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Armed Forces Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Armed Forces
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Armed Forces "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) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words 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 Armed Forces
