my shadow's the only one that walks beside me
5.31.2005
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Happiness, like religion, is a mystery, and should never be rationalized. ~G. K. Chesterton
Happy is he who has succeeded in learning the causes of things. ~Virgil
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. ~T.H. Huxley
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead. ~Oscar Wilde
It is only people of small moral stature who have to stand on their dignity. ~Arnold Bennett
Confessions may be good for the soul but they are bad for the reputation. ~Lord Dewar
If you don't know where you are going, any path will take you there. ~Sioux proverb
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. ~Hanlon's razor
The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange. ~G. K. Chesterton
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, for it prolongs the torments of man. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
The Lord God is subtle, but malicious He is not. ~Albert Einstein
And Silence, like a poultice, comes / To heal the blows of sound. ~Oliver
Wendell Holmes Sr.
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side
he's on. ~Joseph Heller
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. ~Jules Renard
There are two kinds of fool. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, "This is new, and therefore better." ~John Brunner
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
There is a pleasure sure in being mad which none but madmen know. ~John Dryden
It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common
sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible
for public office. ~H.L. Mencken
Quiet people are well able to look after themselves.
The optimist claims that we live in the best of worlds. The pessimist fears that this is true. ~James Branch Cabell
What you do speaks so loud I cannot hear what you say.
A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything. One's last is to come to terms with everything.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. ~Umberto Eco
He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is, like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone, all leave it alone. ~Thomas de Quincy
There never was a genius without a tincture of madness. ~Aristotle
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character can make any stand against good wit. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest pleasure in life is to do what people say you cannot.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. ~Albert Einstein
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. ~George Bernard Shaw
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. ~George Eliot
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, / There is rapture in the lonely
shore, / There is society where none intrudes, / By the deep sea, and music
in its roar: / I love not man the less, but nature more. ~Lord Byron
Tact is for those who are not witty enough to be sarcastic.
Efficiency is intelligent laziness. ~David Dunham
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say. ~Marshall McLuhan
Why don't you write books people can read? ~Nora Joyce to her husband James
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