People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Astronomy Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Astronomy
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Astronomy You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Astronomy
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Astronomy "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Astronomy
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Astronomy There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Astronomy
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan 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 The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Astronomy "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Astronomy
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith 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 depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Astronomy Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) 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.
-- Crowf Astronomy
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Astronomy Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Astronomy We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Astronomy
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Astronomy "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Astronomy
Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Astronomy "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Astronomy
"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Astronomy "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 I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Astronomy
