THOUGHTS TO GET YOU THROUGH ALMOST ANY CRISIS
- Indecision is the key to flexibility.
- Convincing yourself a bad idea is a good idea is a bad idea.
- There is no substitute for a genuine lack of preparation.
- All general statements are false. {The Universal Law}
- Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were
a
member of Congress; but I repeat myself. -Mark
Twain
- Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
- Genius
may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
-- Elbert Hubbard
- It may be a small world but don't ever volunteer to paint it.
- Happiness is merely the absence of pain.
- Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
- Sometimes too much liquor isn't enough.
- Bigamy is having one spouse too many. Monogamy is the same. -Oscar Wilde
- Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry. -Spanish Proverb
- In most cases, the facts, although interesting, are irrelevant.
-Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. -- Euripides
-Alimony is a fine levied
against a man who won't
stay single and can't stay
married.
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The controlled application of terror is a form
of communication.
- He who thinks logically is a nice contrast
to the real world.
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The art of prophecy is difficult, especially with
regard
to the future. (perhaps by Mark Twain)
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There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.
--
Lester J. Pourciau
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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
-Wayne Dyer
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Anything worth fighting for is worth fighting dirty for.
(the
Republican axiom)
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Everything should be made as simple as
possible,
-- but no simpler. - A. Einstein
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Women have many faults but men have only two;
everything
they say and everything they do.
- Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
- I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.
- Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. -- Lawrence J. Peter
All
the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
-- Sean O'Casey
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The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. --
Henny Youngman
-There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
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People who insist on sharing their religious views
never
want to hear any of yours.
- If
you had to identify, in a word, the reason why humans will not
achieved
their full potential, that word would be "meetings."
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The main accomplishment of almost all organized protests is to
annoy
the people who are not in them.
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If 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.
- Do not confuse your career with your life.
- No matter what happens, somebody will take it way too seriously.
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When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one
individual
who perceives a solution and is willing to take command.
Very
often, that individual is an idiot.
- Your friends will love you, anyway.
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Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance!
- Suicide is the most sincere form of self-criticism.
- All things being equal, fat people use more soap.
- If you can
smile when everything is
going wrong, you have someone to blame.
- One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.
- There are only two theories
on how to win an argument
with a woman. Both
are incorrect.
-There's always an easy solution
to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.
H.L. Mencken
- By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends.
- Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious. -Brendan Gill
- An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance.
- There is always one more imbecile than you counted on.
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In
the midst of great pleasure, make no promises.
In
the midst of great anger, answer no letters.
- Chinese Proverb.
- This is as bad as it can get, but don't bet on it.
- Never wrestle with pigs: -- Everyone
gets dirty, but the pigs enjoy it.
- The trouble with life is, you're halfway
through it before you learn it's a
"do
it yourself" thing.
- In all problems mechanical, Mother Nature is not on your side.
- Being low on the totem pole is an advantage in a storm.
When
religion dominates...magic is mistaken for medicine;
When
science dominates...medicine is mistaken for magic.
after
Thomas Szasz
- Virtue may be its own reward but it's also its own punishment.
- Never argue with a fool; others may not know who's the fool.
- If you're starving, don't eat prunes.
- If everything appears to be going fine,
you've missed something.
- No good deed goes unpunished.
- I
am not the boss of my house. I don't know how I lost it. I
don't
know when I lost it. I don't think I ever had it. But I've
seen the
job and I don't want it. -Bill
Cosby
- If
you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten. -George
Carlin
- Whatever you
bought today will
be on sale by the
end of the month.
- A dog chasing two rabbits catches neither.
- When someone
says "It's the principle
of the thing, not
the money." Believe me - it's the money!
- No amount of education can surpass pure dumb luck.
-Instead of getting married
again, I'm going to find a woman
I don't like and give
her a house. -Lewis Grizzard
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The more you understand a problem
the less clear the solution becomes.
-The
pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar
Wilde
- A word to the wise is often essential.
- It is the young that wish to give their
elders the benefit of their inexperience.
- No matter how great your triumph or how
tragic your defeat, about one billion Chinese
couldn't care less.
(Lazuli's Chinese Relativity Axiom)
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- Policies are just ways of preventing
people from taking part in affairs which
properly concern them. -adapted from P. Valery- Do not trust a man who claims to be boss in his own house.
If he lies about that he will lie about anything.- Avoid temptation, unless you just can't.
- One rarely meets a true believer worth knowing.
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something
to be thankful for.
As
for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
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A man may be a fool and not know it -- but not if he's married.
(above
3 from H. L. Mencken)
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Smoking and drinking cure all ills ... eventually ..
- A man's only as old as the woman he feels.
- Time wounds all heels. ( above 2 from G. Marx)
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By three methods we learn wisdom:
First,
by reflection, which is noblest;
second,
by imitation, which is easiest; and
third,
by experience, which is the bitterest.
-Confucius,
(c. 551-478 BC)
- It's time
for the human race to enter the solar system.
(Dan Quayle, Former [thank God]
VP of the USA)
- If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before.
-See, the problem is that
God gave men a brain and a penis,
but only enough blood
to run one at a time. -Robin
Williams
- Never play leapfrog with a unicorn!
unless noted - authors unknown
This page updated Feb. 2003