| "You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try.' " --Homer Simpson "It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we believe to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them." --George Eliot "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." --Samuel Johnson "Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved." --Barbara Johnson "The world will be wonderful they say. But from whose viewpoint, if one phone call can announce the end of everything?" --Steiner, La Dolce Vita "You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm" --Colette "Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our point of view."--Obi-Wan Kenobi "The badness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of helicopters in it." --Dave Barry "Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough, and when you have enough, you have self-respect." --Gail Sheehy "Little League baseball is a good thing because it keeps the parents off the street and the kids out of the house." --Yogi Berra "Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance." --Dave Barry Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Shaw's Principle: Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. "A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person." --Dave Barry "The poet only seeks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits." --G.K. Chesterton "Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one." --George Orwell "If there really is a God who created the entire universe with all of its glories, and He 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 "The physicists could but make the best of it, and went around with woebegone faces sadly complaining that on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays they must look on light as a wave; on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, as a particle. On Sundays they simply prayed." --Banesh Hoffman "When angry count to four; when very angry, swear." --Mark Twain "Girls always cry; guys'll never admit they did." --Blink-182 "It's a topsy-turvy world, maybe the problems of two people don't amount to more than a hill of beans. But this is -our- hill. And these are -our- beans." --Naked Gun |
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