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You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Newtown A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Newtown
"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Newtown The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Newtown
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "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) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Newtown "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Newtown
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Newtown 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 "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 When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Newtown
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Newtown Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Newtown
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Newtown "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Newtown
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Newtown The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Newtown
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Newtown Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Newtown
"I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Newtown Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Newtown
In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Newtown A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Newtown
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Newtown When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Newtown
