My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) L Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois L
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor L Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous L
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words L Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I L
More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde L They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
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I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson L Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle L
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) L Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) L
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson L Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel L
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous L If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President L
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life L "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker L
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene L Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and L
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw L "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) L
