If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based E The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) E
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per E Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 E
"I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell 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 I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen E In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and E
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun 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.
? Work blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) E If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST E
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers E I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken E
"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 "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch E "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
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Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume E Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha E
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 E "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous E
One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle E "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett E
Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge E If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands E
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) E If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson E
