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I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Environment "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) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Environment
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Environment The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Environment
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost 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 Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Environment Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Environment
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Environment Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Environment
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Environment The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Environment
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Environment Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "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 Environment
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Environment "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Environment
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Environment I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great 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 Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Environment
"... 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) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Environment Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Environment
In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull 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 We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca 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 Environment "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." I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Environment
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Environment 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 Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Environment
