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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery 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 "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Rotaserv Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
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"I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Rotaserv "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Rotaserv
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Rotaserv 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 To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Rotaserv
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Rotaserv "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Rotaserv
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Rotaserv Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Rotaserv
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Rotaserv Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Rotaserv
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Rotaserv All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Rotaserv
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Rotaserv The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Rotaserv
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Rotaserv The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Rotaserv
"One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Rotaserv Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Rotaserv
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Rotaserv "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Rotaserv
