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When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Newspapers Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Newspapers
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi 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) Newspapers In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Newspapers
"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Newspapers Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Newspapers
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Newspapers Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Newspapers
Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Newspapers Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Newspapers
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld 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 Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Newspapers "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Newspapers
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Newspapers Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Newspapers
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Newspapers Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Newspapers
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Newspapers 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 You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Newspapers
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Newspapers blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Newspapers
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Newspapers "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Newspapers
