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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Auchterarder It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Auchterarder
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Auchterarder "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "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) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Auchterarder
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai 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,
ign Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Auchterarder Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Auchterarder
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "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 "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Auchterarder Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Auchterarder
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Auchterarder "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) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Auchterarder
When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Auchterarder "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Auchterarder
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Auchterarder I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Auchterarder
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Auchterarder I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Auchterarder
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein 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 One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Auchterarder An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Auchterarder
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Auchterarder Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Auchterarder
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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. Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Auchterarder It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday 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 Auchterarder
