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The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Major, John Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Major, John
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Major, John Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Major, John
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams 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 "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Major, John Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Major, John
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Major, John Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Major, John
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "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) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Major, John To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde 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 That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Major, John
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Major, John Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Major, John
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman 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, A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Major, John The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Major, John
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Major, John The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Major, John
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Major, John If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Major, John
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Major, John "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Major, John
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. 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 Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Major, John Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Major, John
