1,000,001 Things I Wish I Had Said First

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Objects must be declared. If there isn't any object mark "X" only at the quantity "Yes" column and if there are any objects, cross out letter "No" and at the same row write exact amount of weight of these objects in words or in figures.

          customs form, Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

          Leonardo da Vinci

Often it is fatal to live too long.

          Racine

Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.

          Horace

Ok, our focus: Are Babies Being Bred for Satanic Sacrifice? Controversial to say the least. Unbelievable to say the least. Disgusting to say the least. We'll be right back.

          Geraldo Rivera

Old man sits in the shade of a thorn tree
He says, "These thorns are all that is true
Life is Suffering, Suffering is Life
Be happy with the small things that come to you."

          Johnny Clegg

On our LA roadtrip, a "renegade faction" of the Band reached "a new low in tastelessness" when it "rallied" the L. A. "County" courthouse during the O.J. Simpson murder "trial." These agents of chaos (tm) received national attention and subsequent stern reprimands from both attorney Robert Shapiro and our Athletic Department. We feel just terrible about it. Bad renegades. No pudding for you.

          Mary Ringhoff

On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.

          cartoon in The New Yorker

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

          Virginia Woolf, The Waves

On your knees, every rascal of you, and salute the King! Who fails shall sup in Hell tonight.

          The Connecticut Yankee

Once I was in the Sahara Desert and I lost my corkscrew. For a month I had to survive on food and water.

          W. C. Fields

Once while I was in college, I spent an entire summer tarring roofs, during which time I learned three things: 1) It takes a lot of tar to cover a roof, 2) There are a lot of damned fine people who tar roofs for a living, 3) Education is the key to improving your prospects.

          CEO of some large firm or other

One disadvantage of having nothing to do is you can't stop and rest.

          Franklin P. Jones

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

          Elbert Hubbard, Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams

One martini is alright, two is too many, three is not
enough.
          James Thurber


One only needs two tools in life:  WD-40 to make things so, and duct
tape to make them stop.
          George Weilacher


One should not attempt to cross a chasm in two bounds.
          Chinese proverb


One should respect public opinion insofar as it is necessary to avoid
starvation and keep out of prison, but anything beyond this is
voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
          Bertrand Russell


One thing the world needs is popular government at popular
prices.
          George Barker


One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong
thing.
          Frank Sheed


One who contends with immortals lives a very short life.
          Homer


Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun.
          Indian proverb


Only the little people pay taxes.
          Leona Helmsley


Opinion says hot and cold, but the reality is atoms and empty
space.
          Democritus


Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work.
          Thomas Edison


OPSDEP:  Short for Operations Deputy.  By JCS charter, the Army representative
is the DCSOPS.  However, the ADCSOPS (JA), who is the DEPOPSDEP, may act for
the OPSDEP on all joint matters.  The use of the term OPSDEP also includes
DEPOPSDEP.  OPSDEPs or DEPOPSDEPs can approve papers for the
JCS.
          Army Joint Actions Handbook


Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely
stupid.
          Heinrich Heine


Our comedies are not to be laughed at.
          Samuel Goldwyn


Our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of
darkness.
          Vladimir Nabokov


Our first move will be to decide what our first move will
be.
          Wellington Mara


Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.
          Walt Disney


Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things
that matter.
          Martin Luther King, Jr.


Our minds are finite, and yet even in those circumstances of finitude, we
are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of human
life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.

          Alfred North Whitehead


Our parents were of Midwestern stock and very strict.  They didn't want us
to grow up to be spoiled and rich.  If we left our tennis rackets out in
the rain, we were punished.
          Nancy Ellis


Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.  We have guided missiles
and misguided men.
          Martin Luther King, Jr.


Our strength is that we don't have any weaknesses.  Our weakness is that we
don't have any real strengths.
          Frank Broyles


Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too
dark to read.
          Groucho Marx


Over 1,100,000 hogs are slaughtered in Baltimore and packed each
year.
          from a 1926 Baltimore Chamber of Commerce pamphlet, 197
          Reasons You Should Enthuse over Baltimore