I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
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-- Robert G. Ingersoll In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
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To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Localities It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Localities
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Localities "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Localities
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Localities Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi 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 Localities
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Localities The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Localities
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Localities I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Localities
I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Localities "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Localities
"I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Localities He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Localities
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Localities "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) 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,
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"What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Localities 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 When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Localities
I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Localities "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Localities
