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"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Duffus "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Duffus
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "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) Duffus If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Duffus
This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Duffus In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Duffus
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Duffus "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Duffus
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Duffus "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Duffus
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Duffus There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Duffus
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Duffus "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Duffus
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 Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Duffus 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 Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Duffus
blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Duffus If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Duffus
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Duffus 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. Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Duffus
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Duffus The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Duffus
