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"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Opposing Views The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Opposing Views
May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Opposing Views Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Opposing Views
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Opposing Views True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Opposing Views
"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Opposing Views You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Opposing Views
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Opposing Views If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Opposing Views
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Opposing Views None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Opposing Views
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Opposing Views None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Opposing Views
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Opposing Views Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Opposing Views
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "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) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Opposing Views Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Opposing Views
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Opposing Views "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Opposing Views
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Opposing Views 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 Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Opposing Views
