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blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Emergency Services The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Emergency Services
I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Emergency Services The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Emergency Services
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin 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 I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Emergency Services "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Emergency Services
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Emergency Services "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Emergency Services
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Emergency Services "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Emergency Services
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Emergency Services "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Emergency Services
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Emergency Services Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Emergency Services
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Emergency Services The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Emergency Services
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) 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 Emergency Services If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards 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 Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Emergency Services
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Emergency Services I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Emergency Services
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Emergency Services Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Emergency Services
