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Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Edward VII I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing 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 Edward VII
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Edward VII Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Edward VII
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Edward VII If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Edward VII
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Edward VII "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Edward VII
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Edward VII Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Edward VII
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Edward VII We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Edward VII
"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Edward VII Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Edward VII
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. 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 Edward VII The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Edward VII
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Edward VII My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Edward VII
A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Edward VII I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Edward VII
Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Edward VII With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Edward VII
