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"As
a child, my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it
or leave it." - Buddy Hackett
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- There
is a theory which states that if anyone ever discovers exactly
what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly
disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable...
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
- Anonymous
- "Obscurum
per obscuris, ignotum per ignotious. (Let the obscure be explained
by the more obscure, the unknown by the more unknown)" -
Anonymous
- "Remember
to always dream. More importantly to make those dreams come true
and never give up." - Dr. Robert D.
Ballard
- "The
thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just
take it." - Roseanne Barr
- "And
when God, who created the entire universe with all of its glories,
decides to deliver a message to humanity, HE WILL NOT use, as
His messenger, a person on cable TV with a bad hairstyle." - Dave
Barry
- "Out
of obscurity I came - to obscurity I can easily return."
- Charlotte Bronte
- "Oh,
you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group
for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar."
- Drew Carey
- "Ye
shall know the truth and the truth shall set ye free." -
CIA
- "As
far as I'm concerned, war always means failure" - Jacques
Chirac, President of France
"As far as France is concerned, you're right." - Rush
Limbaugh
- "Heav'n
has no rage like love to hatred turn'd Nor Hell a fury, like a
woman scorn'd." - William Congreve,
The Mourning Bride
- "To
be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make
you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever
going to fight. Never stop fighting" - e.e.
cummings
- "I
want you to start a crusade in your life - to dare to be your
best." - William Danforth
- "I
haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work." - Thomas
Eddison
- "Common
sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
- Albert Einstein
- "Great
spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre
minds" - Albert Einstein
-
"I see far because I stand on the shoulders of giants."
-Albert
Einstein
- "If
A equals success, then the formula is A = X+Y+Z. X is work. Y
is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." - Albert
Einstein
- "If
the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." - Albert
Einstein
- "If
we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?" - Albert Einstein
- "Imagination
is more important than knowledge." - Albert
Einstein
- "So
long as they don't get violent, I want to let everyone say what
they wish, for I myself have always said exactly what pleased
me." - Albert Einstein
- "There
are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing
is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
- Albert Einstein
- "A
foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
little statesmen and philosophers and divines." -
Ralph Waldo Emerson, ESSAY II Self-Reliance
- "We
dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend,
so we buy ice cream." - Ralph Waldo
Emerson
- "Hide
not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in
the shade." - Ben Franklin
- "Those
that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Ben
Franklin
- "Heavy
the sorrow that bows the head, when love is alive and hope is
dead." William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan,
HMS Pinafore
- "If
you can see a bandwagon, it's too late to get on it." - James
Goldsmith
- "As
a child, my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or
leave it." - Buddy Hackett
- "I
was thinking about buying a Hummer but decided it'd be cheaper
to get a tatoo on my forhead that says, 'I need attention.'"
- Craig Kilborn of CBS's Late Late
Show
- If
you're going to make a parachute jump, you should be at least
how high?
CHARLEY WEAVER: Three days of steady drinking should do it. -
Peter Marshall's List Of Favorite Answers
From "Hollywood Squares"
- "Involved
but not committed - know the difference? In a ham and egg breakfast
the chicken is involved, the pig's committed." - Jonathan
Kellerman, Self-Defense
- In
the real world / As in dreams / Nothing is quite / What it seems
- Dean Koontz, The Book of Counted
Sorrows
- "The
Pia Klick Award for exceptional achievement in the field of airhead
speculation." - Dean Koontz,
Fear Nothing
- "Spilling
your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds" - Fran
Lebowitz
- "I
don't know why people are surprised that France won't help us
get Saddam out of Iraq. After all, France wouldn't help us get
the Germans out of France!" - Jay Leno
- "The
last time the French asked for 'more proof' it came marching into
Paris under a German flag." - David Letterman
- "You
can learn from people, and educate others, but the only one you
can change is yourself." - Dan D. Limon
- "Be
sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm" -
Abraham Lincoln
- "Then,
with eyes that saw not, I kissed her; And she, kissing back, could
not know That my kiss was given to her sister, Folded close under
deepening snow." - James
Russell Lowell (1819-1891), U.S. poet. The First Snowfall (l.
37-40)
- "I
can't take it anymore, Felix, I'm cracking up. Everything you
do irritates me. And when you're not here, the things I know you're
gonna do when you come in irritate me. You leave me little notes
on my pillow. Told you 158 times I can't stand little notes on
my pillow. 'We're all out of cornflakes. F.U.' Took me three hours
to figure out F.U. was Felix Ungar!" - Oscar
Madison, The Odd Couple (1968)
- "It's
innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't" -
Mignon McLaughlin
- "The
sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in
a silent room." - Blaise Pascal
- "I
would rather have a German division in front of me than a French
one behind me." - General George S. Patton
- "You've
got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what
do they need you for?" - Bernadette
Peters
- "A
computer let's you make more mistakes faster than any invention
in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and
tequila." - Mitch Ratcliffe
- "Character
building begins in our infancy and continues until death."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- "I
read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the
end and think, Well, that's not going to happen." -
Rita Rudner
- "It
was like stabbing a corpse: it's already dead, so you can't hurt
it anymore." - Perfect Murder, Perfect Town by Lawrence
Schiller
- "Evils
that befall the world are not nearly so often caused by bad men,
as they are by good men who are silent when an opinion must be
voiced." - Resignation letter of Detective Steve Thomas Perfect
Murder, Perfect Town by Lawrence Schiller
- "Going
to war without France is like going deer hunting without your
accordion." - Norman Schwartzkopf
- "I
did something last night and I already have plans for some time."
- That 70s Show, in answer to the question
"Would you like to do something some time?"
- "Man
does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes
he has to eat them." -
Adlai E. Stevenson
- "Those
not revealed shall remain concealed..." Tor Age Bringsvaerd,
Phantoms and Fairies from Norwegian Folklore - Maggy
Thomas, Broken Time.
- "I
have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's
never happened yet." - Mark Twain: An
Autobiography
- "The
world owes you nothing. It was here first."
- Mark Twain
- It's
not that the world is full of fools; it's that lightning isn't
distributed right.
- Mark Twain
- "Suppose
you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.
But I repeat myself." - Mark Twain,
a Biography
- "The
heart is the real Fountain of Youth. While that remains young
the Waterbury of Time must stand still." - Mark
Twain, Notebook, 1898
- "France
has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks
it is a fine country. France has usually been governed by prostitutes."
- Mark Twain
- "This
'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered
as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value
to us." - Western Union internal memo, 1876.
Famous Last Words
- "There
are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror
that reflects it." - Edith Wharton
- "Most
people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions,
their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." - Oscar
Wilde
- "When
love is your greatest weakness, you will be the strongest person
in the world" - Garman Wold
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