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The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Blair Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais 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 If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Blair
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Blair There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Blair
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Blair "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 I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Blair
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Blair Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Blair
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Blair 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 America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Blair
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Blair A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Blair
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Blair If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Blair
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Blair Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Blair
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Blair "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Blair
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Blair Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Blair
"Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Blair It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Blair
