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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Charters A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Charters
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Charters Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Charters
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Charters "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Charters
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Charters "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Charters
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Charters "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash "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 Charters
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom 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 Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Charters We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Charters
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Charters Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Charters
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 It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Charters What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Charters
"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) 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 Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Charters If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Charters
Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Charters Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Charters
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 Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Charters "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Charters
