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Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) MacCallum I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) MacCallum
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey MacCallum I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
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"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford MacCallum I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th MacCallum
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein MacCallum Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran 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 MacCallum
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. MacCallum 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 Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh 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 MacCallum
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton MacCallum I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) MacCallum
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW MacCallum "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous MacCallum
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana MacCallum "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. MacCallum
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) MacCallum Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. MacCallum
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr MacCallum "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman MacCallum
"To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder MacCallum "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) MacCallum
