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+A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
+ - B. L. Taylor
+%%
+Oh gracious, why wasn't I born old and ugly?
+ - Dickens
+%%
+Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand
+can turn out a good article on it.
+ - M. Twain
+%%
+A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
+ - S. Goldwyn
+%%
+"Classic." A book which people praise and don't read.
+ - M. Twain
+%%
+Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
+ - Benjamin Franklin
+%%
+Everything is funny as long as it is happening
+to someone else.
+ - Will Rogers
+%%
+I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.
+ - Groucho Marx
+%%
+One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie
+is that a cat has only nine lives.
+ - M. Twain
+%%
+Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral?
+It is because we are not the person involved.
+ - M. Twain
+%%
+When angry, count four;
+when very angry, swear.
+ - M. Twain
+%%
+A perfect vacuum exists only in the minds of men.
+ - P. H. Beck
+%%
+Those whose courses are different cannot lay plans for one another.
+ - Confucian Analects Bk. 15:39
+%%
+Learning without thought is labor lost;
+thought without learning is perilous.
+ - Confucian Analects Bk. 2:15
+%%
+The falsely dramatic drives out the truly dull.
+ - Gennerat's Law
+%%
+Our universe is simply one of those things that happen from time to time.
+ - Edward Tryon
+%%
+When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains,
+however improbable, must be the truth.
+ - Sherlock Holmes
+%%
+admiration, n.
+Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
+ - Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
+%%
+bore, n.
+A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
+ - Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
+%%
+coward, n.
+One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
+ - Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
+%%
+What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.
+%%
+Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
+ - Simeon Strunsky
+%%
+To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
+ - Confucian Analects, Bk. 11:15,iii
+%%
+He who speaks without modesty will find
+it difficult to make his words good.
+ - Confucian Analects, Bk. 14:21
+%%
+Heaven and earth are not humane.
+They regard all things as straw dogs.
+ - Lao Tzu
+%%
+He who knows others is wise.
+He who knows himself is enlightened.
+ - Lao Tzu
+%%
+He who knows does not speak.
+He who speaks does not know.
+ - Lao Tzu
+%%
+To know that you do not know is the best.
+To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.
+ - Lao Tzu
+%%
+Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
+ - Theophrastus
+%%
+You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.
+ - Publilius Syrus
+%%
+If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
+ - Sir Isaac Newton
+%%
+The probability of someone watching you is
+proportional to the stupidity of your action.
+ - A. Kindsvater
+%%
+The various forms of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world,
+were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher,
+as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.
+ - Edward Gibbon, "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"
+%%
+Of course you realize this means war!
+ - Bugs Bunny
+%%
+The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds;
+and the pessimist fears this is true.
+ - James Branch Cabell
+%%
+Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
+ - From the "Notebooks of Lazarus Long" by Robert Heinlein
+%%
+Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
+ - W. Somerset Maugham
+%%
+Life is a continuing series of multiple-choice questions, with the answers
+torn out of the back of the book.
+ - Sydney J. Harris
+%%
+There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what
+the Universe is for and why it is here. it will instantly disappear and
+be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
+
+There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
+ - Douglas Adams, "The Restaurant at the end of the Universe"
+%%
+The following sentence is false.
+The preceding sentence is true.
+%%
+A well-frog cannot imagine the ocean, nor can a
+summer insect conceive of ice. How can a scholar
+understand the Tao? He is restricted by his own
+learning.
+ - Chung-tse
+%%
+panic: can't spare any memory for you today.
+%%
+!XINIM ni deppart m'I !pleH
+%%
+panic: page segment violation
+%%
+panic: not enough memory (hey, I've got some very cheap 41256's for you)
+%%
+Heaven wheels above you
+Displaying to you eternal glories
+And still your eyes are on the ground.
+ - Dante
+%%
+When the mind is disturbed, the multiplicity of things is
+produced, but when the mind is quieted, the multiplicity
+of things disappears.
+ - Ashvaghosha, "The Awakening of Faith.
+%%