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When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong -- or absolutely right. ~Albert Guinon Life is short ... forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably ... and never regret anything that made you smile ... ~Anonymous It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ~Krishnamurti Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. ~Steven Wright When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it. ~Bernard Bailey Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. ~Edgar Allan Poe You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there. ~George Burns Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. ~Isaac Asimov One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests. ~John Stuart Mill Part of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore. ~Alan Moore Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. ~Jules Renard An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it. ~Jef Mallett I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this. ~Emo Phillips

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him. ~Paul Eldridge When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page. ~Bill Clinton None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A clever man commits no minor blunders. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A person hears only what they understand. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Common sense is the genius of humanity. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Correction does much, but encouragement does more. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Doubt grows with knowledge. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words. ~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I love those who yearn for the impossible. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Life is the childhood of our immortality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love can do much, but duty more. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love does not dominate; it cultivates. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nothing is worth more than this day. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Great people talk about great ideas; average people talk about average ideas; small people talk about other poeple. ~Anonymous If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. ~Anatole France When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. ~William Wrigley Jr. When you're through changing, you're through. ~Bruce Barton

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. ~Oscar Levant The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. ~Bertrand Russell The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it. ~Glaser and Way I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. ~Bill Cosby If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything. ~Bill Lyon A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. ~Arnold Toynbee Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy. ~Spike Milligan It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. ~Aeschylus After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood. ~Fred Thompson When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. ~Sir Winston Churchill Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. ~Marilyn Monroe The best way to predict the future is to invent it. ~Alan Kay The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. ~Flannery O'Connor

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. ~Anais Nin Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. ~William Dement Sanity is a madness put to good use. ~George Santayana The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. ~Daniel Webster History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. ~Edward Gibbon An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. ~G. K. Chesterton Silence is the virtue of fools. ~Sir Francis Bacon It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. ~Voltaire You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it. ~Charles Haddon Spurgeon Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. ~Oscar Wilde The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it. ~Carl Becker One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. ~Rita Mae Brown Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. ~Thomas A. Edison He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. ~Chinese Proverb

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ~Will Durant It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~William Blake The love of truth lies at the root of much humor. ~Robertson Davies There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness. ~Franz Kafka An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. ~Laurence J. Peter My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. ~Jean Rostand Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ~ Voltaire The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page ~St. Augustine Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen. ~Benjamin Disraeli Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. ~Plato When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice. ~Otto von Bismarck The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. ~Hannah Arendt When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. ~William Wrigley Jr. No good deed goes unpunished. ~Clare Booth Luce

There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through … ~Jeph Jacques Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. ~Dr. Seuss The life given to us by nature is short but the memory of a life well-spent is eternal. ~Cicero History, like God, is watching what we do. ~Bono No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. ~Hal Borland The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing. ~Nancy Astor Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. ~Gail Godwin But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. ~Benjamin Franklin I make mistakes. I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as heck don't deserve me at my best. ~Marilyn Monroe Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. ~Albert Schweitzer I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life. ~George Burns Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. ~Blaise Pascal Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. ~Phyllis Diller Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. ~Voltaire

The graveyards are full of indispensable men. ~Charles de Gaulle Never judge a book by its movie. ~J. W. Eagan The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. ~George F. Will Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying. ~Ronald Reagan The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. ~Henry Stimson If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer. ~Alfred North Whitehead An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. ~Friedrich Engels We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. ~Voltaire Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ~Albert Einstein Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain. ~John F. Kennedy Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. ~Harry S Truman The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. ~Lord Acton

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age. ~William Feather It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem. ~Malcolm Forbes There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. ~G. K. Chesterton When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package. ~John Ruskin In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right. ~Ellen Goodman The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps. ~Benjamin Disraeli No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. ~Charles Dickens Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. ~James M. Barrie If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ~John Kenneth Galbraith Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. ~George Bernard Shaw Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. ~Bill Watterson Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. ~David T. Wolf The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. ~Flannery O'Connor When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right. ~Albert Guinon I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. ~Augusten Burroughs

Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality. ~George Santayana The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. ~Edith Sitwell Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. ~Friedrich von Schiller It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. ~Abraham Lincoln A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. ~Fred Allen Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night." ~Charles M. Schulz You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. ~Eric Hoffer The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. ~David Russell Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. ~Andre Gide Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. ~Bertrand Russell If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? ~Laurence J. Peter An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything. ~Charles Kuralt

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. ~Eric Hoffer The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. ~Thomas Szasz If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability. ~Vannevar Bush Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. ~Katharine Hepburn It's a lot like nature. You only have as many animals as the ecosystem can support and you only have as many friends as you can tolerate the bitching of. ~Randy K. Milholland I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. ~J. R. R. Tolkien Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. ~Napoleon Bonaparte Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies. ~Dalton Camp The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. ~Lucille S. Harper Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs. ~P. J. O'Rourke Actions lie louder than words. ~Carolyn Wells The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it. ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are none of us infallible--not even the youngest of us. ~W. H. Thompson Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. ~James F. Byrnes Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. ~ George Santayana CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. ~Arthur C. Clarke Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. ~Peter Ustinov There are 1011 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. ~Richard Feynman When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them. ~Rodney Dangerfield Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. ~Isaac Asimov What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes! ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Sometimes you put up walls not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. ~Anonymous None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. ~Ferdinand Foch I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents. ~Sir Winston Churchill When a grandparent dies, it is like a library has burned down. ~old African saying

Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art. ~Charles McCabe If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties. ~Sir Francis Bacon The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect. ~Esther Dyson The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. ~E. B. White Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ~Thomas A. Edison I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood. ~Tom Hanks You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing. ~Michael Pritchard He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have. ~Don Juan Manuel I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert. ~Demetri Martin The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. ~Samuel Butler Sanity is a madness put to good use. ~George Santayana Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time. ~E. B. White Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. ~Robert Orben

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. ~Mark Russell You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun. ~Al Capone A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation. ~Bertrand Russell There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. ~Benjamin Disraeli Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad. ~George Bernard Shaw When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. ~Brendan Behan If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door. ~Paul Beatty A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck. ~Adam Clayton Powell Jr. It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. ~H. L. Mencken Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. ~Kurt Vonnegut To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. ~Anatole France Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors. ~Quentin Crisp I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. ~e e cummings

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible. ~Bertrand Russell The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. ~Henry James A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. ~Fred Allen No one can earn a million dollars honestly. ~William Jennings Bryan I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them. ~E. V. Lucas Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. ~George Bernard Shaw An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it. ~Jef Mallett Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--/ I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference. ~Robert Frost Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. ~Howard Scott There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. ~Friedrich Nietzsche God set definite bounds on man's wisdom, but put no limits on his stupidity. ~anonymous The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums. ~G. K. Chesterton A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs. ~Mark Twain

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all. ~Peter McWilliams In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear. ~John C. Dvorak I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution. ~Wernher von Braun If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate. ~Elbert Hubbard Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. ~Mark B. Cohen The shortest distance between two points is under construction. ~Noelie Altito Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. ~George Bernard Shaw The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise...but is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day. ~Henry David Thoreau Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'? ~Jay Leno We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head. ~Dennis Miller The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it. ~Joan Rivers Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. ~Immanuel Kant

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some. ~Herbert Rappaport The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it. ~H. G. Wells When you're in a car and you want to go forward, you put it in D. If you want to go backward, you put it in R. ~President Obama The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. ~Nikola Tesla We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. ~Oscar Wilde I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this. ~Emo Phillips The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced. ~Vic Gold An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. ~Simon Cameron It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. ~Judith Martin America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week. ~Evan Esar For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news. ~Gloria Borger The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. ~Sir Richard Francis Burton A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members. ~David Coblitz

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one. ~Laurence J. Peter In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are. ~Nicholas Chamfort Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. ~Frank Leahy I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. ~Groucho Marx We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones. ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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