You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) A If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder A
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) A Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger A
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e A There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 A
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) A Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress A
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton A A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt A Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"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) A
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. A "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner A
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 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 A The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words A
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) A Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese A
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein A The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. A
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard A "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
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