Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Environment If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Environment "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Environment
We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Environment A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Environment
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Environment If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Environment
The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
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bre "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Environment When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Environment
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita 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 Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Environment Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
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-- Schopenhauer "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Environment
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ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Environment Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Environment
In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Environment Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Environment
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Environment And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Environment
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Environment Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Environment
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 The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Environment The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Environment
