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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant MacLeod My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) MacLeod
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills MacLeod Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud MacLeod
"Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi MacLeod I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn MacLeod
blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words MacLeod A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker MacLeod
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes MacLeod I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne MacLeod
"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." Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James MacLeod Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer MacLeod
"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) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, MacLeod "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy MacLeod
Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' MacLeod "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "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) MacLeod
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) MacLeod The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb MacLeod
"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) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge MacLeod Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) MacLeod
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And MacLeod It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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