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Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Religion Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Religion
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Religion My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Religion
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Religion The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "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) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Religion
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Religion The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Religion
Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Religion If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Religion
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 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 Religion Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Religion
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Religion There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Religion
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Religion Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w 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 Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Religion
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Religion To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Religion
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Religion This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Religion
"Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. 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 "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Religion "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Religion
