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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Port Glasgow A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Port Glasgow
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Port Glasgow A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Port Glasgow
Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Port Glasgow It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D 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 Port Glasgow
"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Port Glasgow "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Port Glasgow
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard 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 Unhappy The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Port Glasgow You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Port Glasgow
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Port Glasgow Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Port Glasgow
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Port Glasgow Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Port Glasgow
How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Port Glasgow "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Port Glasgow
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Port Glasgow Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Port Glasgow
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) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Port Glasgow Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Port Glasgow
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Port Glasgow Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Port Glasgow
