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"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf .. 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 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 Graphical, Paper and Media Union A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Graphical, Paper and Media Union
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Graphical, Paper and Media Union I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain 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 I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Graphical, Paper and Media Union
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh .. 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 Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Graphical, Paper and Media Union First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
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-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Graphical, Paper and Media Union
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Graphical, Paper and Media Union "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Graphical, Paper and Media Union
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Graphical, Paper and Media Union A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Graphical, Paper and Media Union
"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 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 Graphical, Paper and Media Union The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Graphical, Paper and Media Union
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Graphical, Paper and Media Union It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
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"That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry 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 Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Graphical, Paper and Media Union You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Graphical, Paper and Media Union
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Graphical, Paper and Media Union "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Graphical, Paper and Media Union
If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Graphical, Paper and Media Union "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) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Graphical, Paper and Media Union
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Graphical, Paper and Media Union Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Graphical, Paper and Media Union
