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"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
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- Elbert Hubbard In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Neyland Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Neyland A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Neyland
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "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 "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Neyland "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Neyland
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) 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 Neyland We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
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many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Neyland
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill 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 tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Neyland You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Neyland
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Neyland Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
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Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Neyland Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "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 Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Neyland
It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Neyland In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Neyland
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) 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 "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Neyland "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Neyland
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) 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 At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Neyland Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Neyland
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Neyland Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Neyland
