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He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Victoria "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Victoria
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Victoria "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Victoria
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Victoria When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Victoria
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Victoria 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 Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Victoria
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Victoria It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Victoria
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Victoria I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Victoria
"We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Victoria "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Victoria
Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "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 In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Victoria "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Victoria
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Victoria "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Victoria
When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Victoria Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Victoria
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Victoria There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Victoria
