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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) MacLachlan "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France MacLachlan
"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses MacLachlan I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story MacLachlan
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez MacLachlan The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries MacLachlan
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain MacLachlan "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 "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 A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw MacLachlan
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "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) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais MacLachlan To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin MacLachlan
"Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) MacLachlan "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 I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) MacLachlan
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) MacLachlan History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "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) MacLachlan
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill MacLachlan "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley MacLachlan
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde MacLachlan "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen MacLachlan
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w MacLachlan Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting 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 When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake MacLachlan
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) MacLachlan The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb MacLachlan
