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All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Weather "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
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Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "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 If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Weather "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Weather
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Weather "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Weather
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Weather "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Weather
We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Weather Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Weather
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Weather We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Weather
Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Weather I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Weather
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Weather "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Weather
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"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 I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Weather When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe 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 Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Weather
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "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) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Weather 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 When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Weather
May you never leave your marriage alive. "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Weather Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Weather