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"Since I can no longer face life, I have decided to go through
the rest of it backwards."
-Ashley Brilliant
"Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because
he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to
knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself
ten years ago."
-Horace Mann
"The difference between the right word and the almost right
word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."
-Mark Twain
"The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly
assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one
loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely
expressible in words."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing
personality over character."
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
-Victor Borge
"Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be
your undoing."
-Holbrook Jackson
"What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech
with them."
-Vincent McNabb, God's Way of Mercy
"I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man
alive."
-Henry Miller
"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we
cannot live within."
-James Baldwin
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend,
an acquaintance or a stranger."
-Franklin Jones
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts
can be counted."
-Albert Einstein
"In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers
are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you
have to explain what a writer is."
-Geoffrey Cottrell
"As I was going up the stair
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd stay away."
-Hughes Mearns, The Psychoed
"The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head
affirmatively but says nothing."
-Anon.
"I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four
beautiful sunsets."
-John Glenn
"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human
history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila."
-Mitch Ratliffe
"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
-Jean-Paul Sartre
"Old hackers never die. They just go to bitnet."
-Anon.
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a
thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
-William Jennings Bryan
"Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane
people who are willing to admit that they are crazy."
-Nora Ephron
"Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same
oven."
-Yiddish Proverb
"Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the
universe, watch them and see that they laugh, they cry, they tell jokes
... they're just friends waiting to be made."
-Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein
"True friends stab you in the front."
-Oscar Wilde
"England and America are two countries separated by the same
language."
-George Bernard Shaw
"The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by
Americans themselves."
-Irwin Edman,
"If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing."
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature
cries aloud that He does exist; that there is a supreme intelligence, an
immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own
dependence on it."
-- Voltaire
"It is necessary for us to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live
long enough to make them all yourself."
-- Hyman George Rickover
"Where there is no vision, the people perish."
-- Bible (Proverbs 29:18)
"One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you."
-- Larry Gelbart
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough."
-- M.C. Escher
"Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns
on you with a miniature machine gun."
-- Matt Groening
"Never, Never, Never, Never give up."
-- Winston Churchill
"Houston, Tranquility Base here. The eagle has landed."
-Buzz Aldrin
"What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks
what the heart is full of."
-Jim Beggs
"Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out
of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you."
-Madame de Tencin
"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions,
they pass no criticisms."
-George Eliot
"When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is
trying to run away, it's best to let him run."
-Abraham Lincoln
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