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If you can't eat all your chocolate, it will keep in the freezer. But
if you can't eat all your chocolate, what's wrong with you?
Why is there no such organization as Chocoholics Anonymous?
Because no one wants to quit.
I have the most marvelous recipe for meat loaf! All I have to do is
mention it to my husband and he says, "Let's eat out!"
Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or
later have to find time for illness. -Edward Stanley
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not
smart enough to know they were impossible. -Doug Larson
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and
we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. -Michelangelo
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the
longest way. -Samuel Butler
If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?
I am a nobody, and nobody is perfect; therefore I am perfect.
Everyday I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days
I've stayed alive.
How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50
for Miss America?
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.
-Marshall McLuhan
Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere
nearby. -Ruth E. Renkel
Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient
capital to form a corporation. -Howard Scott
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize
they were the big things. -Robert Brault
Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to
discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last
30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages.
-Dave Barry
May you live all the days of your life. -Jonathan Swift
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have,
beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser
than oneself. -Marlene Dietrich
An enemy is one whose story we have not heard. -Gene Knudsen Hoffman
Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in
our prisons. -John Ruskin
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
-Woody Allen
The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world
are the ones who do. -"Think Different", Apple Computers Advertisement
I wish there was a knob on the TV so you could turn up the
intelligence. They got one marked 'brightness' but it doesn't work.
-Gallagher
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which
does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
-Khalil Gibran
Work is the curse of the drinking classes. -Oscar Wilde
ADVICE
If your mind goes blank, don't forget to turn off the sound.
-Red Green
A careful study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy
anything is last year.
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough
to take it all away.
Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull
the trigger.
Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age
and start bragging about it. -Will Rogers
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total
ignorance.
Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their
attention is taken up by thinking. -Eckhart Tolle
You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it
will be too late. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the
homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of
totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?
-Mahatma Gandhi
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's
stone. -Benjamin Franklin
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. -Lucy Larcom
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
-Claude Monet
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. -Edgar Degas
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has
a song. -Chinese Proverb
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right
sometimes. -Horace
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the
middle of it. -P. J. O'Rourke
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time
raising us than you have. -Bart Simpson
It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than
to believe a fact that no one has heard before.
No rules for success will work if you don't.
It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it
accumulate. -Gloria Steinem
Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.
-Sidney J. Harris
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in
doing it. -G. K. Chesterton
When you give someone a book, you don’t give him just paper, ink, and
glue. You give him the possibility of a whole new life.
-Christopher Morley
Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins
because he had achieved so much -- the wheel, New York, wars and so on
- while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water
having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins have always believed
that they were far more intelligent than man ... for precisely the
same reason. -Douglas Adams
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare
up the steps - we must step up the stairs. -Vance Havner
My son has taken up meditation - at least it's better than sitting
doing nothing. -Max Kauffmann
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to
them; there ought to be as many for love. -Margaret Atwood
The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much
trouble to put makeup on two faces. -Maureen Murphy
Modern technology
Owes ecology
An apology.
-Alan M. Eddison
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do
the work of one extraordinary man. -Elbert Hubbard
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public
relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. -Richard P. Feynman
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless
people. -Karl Marx
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge
faster than society gathers wisdom. -Isaac Asimov
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of
subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. -Hal Borland
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment
by the corrupt few. -George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you
don't think.
Everybody always talks about the weather, but no one ever does
anything about it. -Mark Twain
Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your
dog would go in. -Mark Twain
The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but
that they know so many things that ain't so. -Mark Twain
Not all those who wander are lost. -J R R Tolkien
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
-Adlai Stevenson
The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.
Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. -Zen Proverb
It should be noted that the games of children are not games, and must
be considered as their most serious actions. -Michel de Montaigne
When photography was invented it was thought to be an equivalent to
truth, it was truth with a capital "T". -Vicki Goldberg
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less
imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in
photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking
before you learn to see the ordinary. -David Bailey
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the
photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on
looking. -Brooks Anderson
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology,
in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
-Carl Sagan
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as
to discover new ways of thinking about them. -Sir William Bragg
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it.
An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who
made it. -Albert Einstein
There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent
methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth,
whatever it may be. -Charles Sanders Pierce
Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories
are written for ghosts. -Brian Aldiss
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one
who asks the right questions. -Claude Levi-Strauss
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make
their experiments on journalists and politicians. -Henrik Ibsen
Look at these cows and remember that the greatest scientists in the
world have never discovered how to make grass into milk.
-Michael Pupin
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but
if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.
-Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get
if you don't. -Pete Seeger
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of
dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his
son to college. -Bill Vaughan
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