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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "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) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Brodie "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Brodie
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Brodie One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Brodie
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Brodie "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) 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 All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Brodie
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Brodie The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Brodie
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Brodie To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Brodie
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Brodie "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Brodie
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Brodie "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Brodie
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Brodie "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
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We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Brodie "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Brodie
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Brodie Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Brodie
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Brodie "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Brodie
