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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl 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 Alness The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "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) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Alness
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Alness 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Alness
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Alness Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Alness
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Alness Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Alness
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Alness >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Alness
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Alness Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Man and wife make one fool. If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Alness
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Alness "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) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
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Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Alness Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Alness
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi 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 Alness Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Alness
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Alness My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Alness
"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Alness War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Alness
