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"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." "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Classifieds Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Classifieds
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage 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 always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Classifieds Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Classifieds
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Classifieds Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Classifieds
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb 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) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko 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." ( Classifieds After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Classifieds
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Classifieds Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Classifieds
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Classifieds "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Classifieds
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Classifieds 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 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 Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Classifieds
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Classifieds "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Classifieds
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Classifieds I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Classifieds
We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Classifieds The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Classifieds
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Classifieds "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Classifieds
