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"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams William III, of Orange I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) William III, of Orange
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin William III, of Orange The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein William III, of Orange
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) 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 William III, of Orange "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin William III, of Orange
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom William III, of Orange A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) William III, of Orange
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill William III, of Orange The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele William III, of Orange
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) William III, of Orange "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James William III, of Orange
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy William III, of Orange I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) William III, of Orange
2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow William III, of Orange Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) William III, of Orange
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) William III, of Orange Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe William III, of Orange
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert William III, of Orange Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) William III, of Orange
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi William III, of Orange The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous William III, of Orange
