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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
Aug
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"Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive." Lytton
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and
deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without
thunder and lightning.
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get
permission. ~ Admiral Grace Hopper
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you
reach eighteen.
I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six
days. Even the Almighty took seven.
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself.
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without
you. Winnie the Pooh
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants. ~ Isaac
Newton
Before God we are all equally wise and equally foolish.
"Distance between two hearts is not an obstacle...rather a beautiful reminder of just how strong true
love can be."
June
Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in
order to stand around at a bar and drink.
- PJ O'Rourke
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough
for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
- Fred Allen
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
- WH Auden
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a
goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
- Arnold Toynbee
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is
Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
- Ted Morgan
"If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear the pain of loss, then our
lives will be empty, our loss greater." Tanis HalfElven from the Dragonlance saga
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
- Voltaire
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
- Jerome K. Jerome
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
- Philip Guedalla
July
Religion is like a nail: the harder you hit it, the deeper it goes in. Our efforts should have been directed
toward drawing it out.
So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to
worship. — The Grand Inquisitor in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov
Nothing says, 'I have no idea what to get you,' quite like giant beige bath towels.
- Missbhavens
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
- Sophocles
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
- Cullen Hightower
Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely
governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
- Clive Barnes
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the
greatest threat to liberty.
- Eugene McCarthy
An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.
- Benjamin Stolberg
Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely
governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
- Clive Barnes
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
- Michel de Montaigne
Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.
- Laurence J. Peter
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the
greatest threat to liberty.
- Eugene McCarthy
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
Nothing says, 'I have no idea what to get you,' quite like giant beige bath towels.
- Missbhavens