"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain W Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein W
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars W blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg W
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) W I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf W
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 Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) W Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller W
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett W "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker W
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur W Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin 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 The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous W
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood W Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) W
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler W One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland W
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana W The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith W
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Man and wife make one fool. Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock W blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian W
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault W Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln W
