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| Technological progress has merely provided us with more effcient means for going backwards. Aldous Huxley |
| The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both philosophically and theologically false, and at the least an error of faith. The Roman Congregation's ruling against Galileo |
| Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Will Durant |
| If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. George Bernard Shaw |
| Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense. Robert Frost |
| God gives us our relatives--Thank God we can choose our friends. Ethel Mumford |
| You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. Joeseph Conrad |
| He hasn't a foe in the world but all his friends hate him. Eddie Cantor |
| The Baptists believe in the right to life before you're born. They also believe in life after death. But that is a privilege and you have to earn it by spending the interim in guilt-ridden misery. At an early age I decided that living a life of pious misery in the hope of going to heaven when it's over is alot like keeping your eyes shut all through a movie in the hope of getting your money back at the end. A. Whitney B |
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| What a pity the only way to heaven is in a hearse! Stanislaw Jerzy Lee |
| From the moment I picked your book up until I put it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend to read it. Grouch Marx |
| Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love I can: all of them make me laugh. W.H. Auden |
| The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is 6 months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence. H.L. Mencken |
| The ultimate test of whether you possess a sense of humor is your reaction when someone tells you that you don't. Frank Tyger |
| Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. Clive James |
| The man who sees the consistency in things is a wit; the man who sses the inconsistency in things is a humorist. G.K. Chesterton |
| A signature always reveals a man's character and sometimes even his name. Evan Esar |
| Entropy isn't what is used to be. Unknown |
| I cannot say that I don't disagree with you. Groucho Marx |
| Once you can accept the universe as being something expanding into an infinite nothing which is something, wearing stripes with plaid is easy. Albert Einstein |
| It is not clear that intelligence has any long term survival value. Stephen Hawking |
| When you don't have an education you have to use your brains. Unknown |
| No man is an island, entire of itself, every man is a peice of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promitory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; and man's death diminshes me because I am involved in mankind; And therefore, never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. John Donne |
| Life is a serious burden, which no thinking, humane person would wantonly inflict on someone else. Clarence Seward Darrow |
| A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; It is the perogrative of the brave. Mohatma Ghandi |
| He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals. Benjamin Franklin |
| We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe |
| Gravity is not responsible for people falling in love. Albert Einstein |
| To a person in love the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. Charles A. Lindbergh |
| We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reasons of their defects as well as of their qualities. Jacques Maritain |
| God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him more if he finds her. Benjamin Tillett |
| A man in love is incomplete until he has married--then he is finished. Zsa Zsa Gabor |
| Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house. Jeen Kerr |
| Architecture in general is frozen music. Friedrich Von Schilling |
| How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers. Gioacchino Antonio Rossini |
| Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. Voltaire |
| The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead. Arthur Honegger |
| I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end. Margeret Thatcher |
| Save a tree!.........Eat a beaver! Unknown |
| It's hard to soar like an eagle when you're surrounded by turkeys. Winston Churchill |
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