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"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
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-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Cwmtillery Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
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-- Flannery O'Connor "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 "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Cwmtillery
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Cwmtillery Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
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"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
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-- John Weitz, American Designer Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Cwmtillery There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
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your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
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-- Thomas Jefferson Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
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-- Colin Powell Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
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"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Cwmtillery "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
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"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Cwmtillery The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Cwmtillery
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Cwmtillery When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
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Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
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-- Chekhov Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with 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 "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Cwmtillery He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
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"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Cwmtillery There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
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