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Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Complementary and Alternative In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Complementary and Alternative
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Complementary and Alternative The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Complementary and Alternative
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan 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 I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Complementary and Alternative "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Complementary and Alternative
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Complementary and Alternative Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Complementary and Alternative
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber 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) Complementary and Alternative "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Complementary and Alternative
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Complementary and Alternative The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Complementary and Alternative
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) 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 Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Complementary and Alternative After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Complementary and Alternative
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Complementary and Alternative Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Complementary and Alternative
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Complementary and Alternative I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Complementary and Alternative
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Complementary and Alternative The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Complementary and Alternative
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Complementary and Alternative Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Complementary and Alternative
