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"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Golden Jubilee "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Golden Jubilee
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Golden Jubilee "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "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 We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Golden Jubilee
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Golden Jubilee The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Golden Jubilee
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Golden Jubilee "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Golden Jubilee
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) 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 My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Golden Jubilee How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Golden Jubilee
Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Golden Jubilee A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Golden Jubilee
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Golden Jubilee I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Golden Jubilee
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Golden Jubilee It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Golden Jubilee
Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Golden Jubilee The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Golden Jubilee
Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Golden Jubilee There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Golden Jubilee
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Golden Jubilee It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Golden Jubilee
