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Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Armstrong "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Armstrong
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Armstrong A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Armstrong
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Armstrong the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Armstrong
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Armstrong The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Armstrong
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Armstrong "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) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Armstrong
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Armstrong "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Armstrong
"It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito 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 Armstrong These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Armstrong
Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Armstrong 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 Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Armstrong
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Armstrong "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Armstrong
"To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Armstrong The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Armstrong
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Armstrong The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Armstrong
