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Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "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) East Midlands All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri East Midlands
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) 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 Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller East Midlands I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins East Midlands
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) East Midlands "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen East Midlands
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor 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 Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons East Midlands "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) East Midlands "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "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) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di East Midlands
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt East Midlands "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat East Midlands
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 What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) East Midlands To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden East Midlands
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 CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O East Midlands Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner East Midlands
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 When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words East Midlands Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton East Midlands
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived East Midlands "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln East Midlands
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France East Midlands 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus East Midlands
