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The human brain starts working the
moment you are born and never stops
until you stand up to speak in public.
- George Jessel

"I'd rather know some of the questions
than all of the answers."
- James Thurber

"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil
of the eye. The more light you shine
on it, the more it will contract."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave
when first we practice to believe."
- Laurence J. Peter

"When love is gone, there's always justice.
And when justice is gone, there's always force.
And when force is gone, there's always Mom.
Hi, Mom!"
- Laurie Anderson

When dealing with the insane, the best
method is to pretend to be sane.
- Hermann Hesse

Quotes

"I'm a great housekeeper. I get
divorced. I keep the house."
- Zsa Zsa Gabor

"Be truthful, nature
only sides with truth."
- Adolf Loos

"Not admiring a mistake
is a bigger mistake."
- Robert Half

"If you hate a person, you hate something
in him that is part of yourself. What isn't
part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."
- Hermann Hesse

"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience
of ages, may be preserved by quotation."
- Benjamin Disraeli

"Because things are the way they are,
things will not stay the way they are."
- Bertolt Brecht

Quotes

Where does one go from a world of insanity?
Somewhere on the other side of despair.
- T. S. Eliot

‘The "silly question" is the first intimation
of some totally new development.’
- Alfred North Whitehead

‘There are no foolish questions, and no man has
become a fool until he stops asking questions.’
- Charles P. Steinmetz

For most men life is a search for
the proper manila envelope in which
to get themselves filed.
- Clifton Fadiman

Eternity is a mere moment,
just long enough for a joke.
- Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)

Home computers are being called upon to perform
many new functions, including the consumption of
homework formerly eaten by the dog.
- Doug Larson