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The ancient sage who concocted the maxim, "Know Thyself" might have
added, "Don't Tell Anyone!"
                                -- H. F. Henrichs
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The aristocrat is right in that only a few people in any society make a
real difference, but the democrat is more deeply right when he insists
that we cannot predict where such valuable people are coming from and
therefore have an obligation to keep all lines open.
                                -- Sydney J. Harris
%%
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you
a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
                                -- Russell Lynes
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
                                -- William James
%%
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve
change amid order.
                                -- Alfred North Whitehead
%%
The ass is still an ass, e'en though he wears a lion's hide.
                                -- Shakespeare
%%
  The atom was not meant to be explored --
    Its splitting was the work of brazen fools.
  Let's march until the Stone Age is restored,
    With rocks and flints our kind of splitting tools.
  Atomic Power?  Seal it in its grave.
    We are Progressive.  Onward to the cave!
                                -- Jack Kirwan
%%
The attacker must vanquish; the defender need only survive.
%%
The attention paid to an instructor is a constant regardless of the size
of the class.  Thus as class size swells, the amount of attention paid
per student drops in direct ratio.
                                -- Richard J. Herrnstein
%%
The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one
graveyard to another.
                                -- J. Frank Dobie
%%
The average woman would rather have beauty than brains because the
average man can see better than he can think.
%%
The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to
another, to read his heart from within.
                                -- Johnson
%%
  The beautiful are never desolate,
  But someone always loves them.
                                -- Bailey
%%
The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
                                -- Socrates (470?-399 B.C.)
%%
The beginnings and the endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
                                -- John Galsworthy
%%
The belief that enhanced understanding will necessarily stir a nation or
an organization to action is one of mankind's oldest beliefs.
                                -- Andrew Hacker
%%
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who
can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight
back.
                                -- Abigail Van Buren
%%
The best investment you can make is hard work.
%%
  The best laid schemes o' mice an' men,
    Gang aft agley,
  And lea'e us nought by grief and pain,
    For promised joy.
                                -- Burns
%%
  The best may slip, and the most cautious fall;
  He's more than mortal that ne'er err'd at all.
                                -- Pomfret
%%
The best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless,
unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
                                -- Wordsworth
%%
The best programmers, designers, and architects are lazy.
                                -- Dick Munroe
%%
The best prophet of the future is the past.
%%
The best rules to form a young man are, to talk little, to hear much, to
reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own
opinions, and value others that deserve it.
                                -- Sir William Temple
%%
The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses
and the introduction of needed improvements.  It is the neglect of
timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
                                -- Richard Whately
%%
The best simpleminded test of expertise in a particular area is an
ability to win money in a series of bets on future occurrences in that
area.
                                -- Graham Allison
%%
The best sort of revenge is not to be like him who did the injury.
                                -- Antoninus
%%
The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.
%%
The best time for marriage will be towards thirty, for as the younger
times are unfit, either to choose or to govern a wife and family, so, if
thou stay long, thou shalt hardly see the education of thy children,
who, being left to strangers, are in effect lost; and better were it to
be unborn than ill-bred; for thereby thy posterity shall either perish
or remain a shame to thy name.
                                -- Sir Walter Raleigh
%%
The best time to look for work is after you get the job.
%%
The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the
right.
                                -- Quentin Hogg, M.P.
%%
The best way out is always through.
                                -- Robert Frost
%%
The best way out of a problem is through it.
%%
The best way to get and keep good people is to give them room to grow.
%%
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere
pleasant -- and let the air out of the tires.
                                -- Dorothy Parker
%%
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
%%
The best way to publicize a governmental or political action is to
attempt to hide it.
                                -- Mark B. Cohen
%%
The best-educated human being is the one who understands most about the
life in which he is placed.
                                -- Helen Keller
%%
The better part of valor is discretion; in the which better part I have
saved my life.
                                -- Shakespeare
%%
The big guys always win.
                                -- Jeffrey F. Chamberlain
%%
The bigger the man, the less likely he is to object to caricature.
                                -- Guernsey Le Pelley
%%
The biggest step you can take is the one you take when you meet the
other person halfway.
%%
The bitter part of discretion is valor.
                                -- Henry W. Nevinson
%%
The blush is nature's alarm at the approach of sin and her testimony to
the dignity of virtue.
                                -- Fuller
%%
The bread and onions you ate this morning tasted better than any feast
to a man who expects to eat again, and the sun through the grills
overhead is brighter for you than for any man who expects to see it rise
tomorrow.
                                -- Pandarus the Gladiator
%%
The bread never falls but on its buttered side.
%%
The bull wears himself out on the cape and never sees the sword.
                                -- Dr. Randall Brooks
%%
The bus that left the stop just before you got there is your bus.
                                -- John Corcoran
%%
The business of living is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead
of ourselves.
%%
The candidate who is expected to do well because of experience and
reputation (Douglas, Nixon) must do better than well, while the
candidate expected to fare poorly (Lincoln, Kennedy) can put points on
the media board by simply surviving.
                                -- Vic Gold
%%
The cat in gloves can do the pruning in the Rose Garden.
                                -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac
%%
The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw
and stifle it.
                                -- Hazlitt
%%
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to
be broken.
                                -- Samuel Johnson
%%
The chameleon may change its color, but it is the chameleon still.
                                -- Shakespeare
%%
The chance of the bread falling buttered side down is directly
proportional to the cost of the carpet.
%%
  The chemist labors, weak and weary,
    Searching for a wonder-drug
  That will prove his favorite theory ...
    And that doesn't melt the jug.
%%
The chief cause of problems is solutions.
                                -- Eric Sevareid
%%
The chief defect of a democracy is that only the political party out of
office knows how to run the government.
%%
The chief pleasure (in eating) does not consist in costly seasoning, or
exquisite flavor, but in yourself.  Do you seek sauce by sweating?
                                -- Horace
%%
The child is father of the man.
                                -- Wordsworth
%%
The christians were the first to make the existence of Satan a dogma of
the church.
%%
The cigarette smoke always drifts in the direction of the non-smoker
regardless of the direction of the breeze.
                                -- Raj K. Dhawan
%%
The circumstances of the modern world make nonsense of the pretensions
to moral or intellectual granduer.
                                -- Lewis Lapham
%%
The citizen is influenced by principle in direct proportion to his
distance from the political situation.
                                -- Milton Rakove
%%
The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high
purpose, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the
eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right
onward, to his object, this is eloquence, or rather it is something
greater and higher than all eloquence -- it is action noble, sublime,
godlike action.
                                -- Webster
%%
The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the
suggestions it is compromising.
%%
The computer is a moron!
%%
The conclusions of most good operations research studies are obvious.
                                -- Robert E. Machol
%%
The confidence of the business executive in a President is inversely
related to the state of business.
                                -- Mark Epernay
%%
The conqueror is regarded with awe, the wise man commands our esteem,
but it is the benevolent man who wins our affection.
%%
The consciousness of clean linen is in and of itself a source of moral
strength only second to that of a clean conscience.  A well-ironed
collar, or a fresh glove, has carried many a man through the emergency
in which a wrinkle or a rip would have defeated him.
                                -- E. E. Phelps
%%
The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and
think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human
affairs.
                                -- Cicero
%%
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of
executive power.
                                -- Daniel Webster
%%
The conventional wisdom is that power is an aphrodisiac.  In truth, it's
exhausting.
                                -- Dom Bonafede
%%
The correct way to punctuate a sentence that starts: "Of course it is
none of my business but ... " is to place a period after the word "but."
Don't use excessive force in supplying such moron with a period. Cutting
his throat is only a momentary pleasure and is bound to get you talked
about.
                                -- Lazarus Long
%%
The corruption in a country is in inverse proportion to its state of
development.
                                -- Nathan Miller
%%
The could neither of 'em speak for rage and so fell a sputtering at one
another like two roasting apples.
                                -- Congreve
%%
The countenance may be rightly defined as the title page which heralds
the contents of the human volume, but like other title pages, if
sometimes puzzles, often misleads, and often says nothing to the
purpose.
                                -- William Matthews
%%
The creditor whose appearance gladdens the the heart of a debtor, may
hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.
                                -- Lavater
%%
The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of
false, that it lessens.  There is something, therefore, in true beauty
that corresponds with the right reason, and it is not merely the
creature of fancy.
                                -- Grenville
%%
The critical mass of any do-it-yourself explosive is never less than
half a bucketful.
                                -- Eric Frank Russell
%%
The crucial memorandum will be snared in the out-basket by the paper
clip of the overlaying correspondence and go to file.
                                -- Charles P. Boyle
%%
The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by
Booth was to fall into the hands of Sandburg.
                                -- Edmund Wilson
%%
The crusades ended several centuries ago after killing thousands of
people. The most important issues arouse intense passions.  Earmuffs to
block the shouting are inappropriate, but filter the feedback.  Joining
a cause and leading a constituency are not mutually exclusive, but
neither are they necessarily synonymous.  Neither welfare nor profits
are "obscene."
                                -- Pierre S. du Pont
%%
The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would
have to rise above the interests of one class alone.
                                -- Robert L. Heilbroner
%%
The cynic who doesn't believe in anything still wants you to believe
him.
%%
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the
future is that men may become robots.
%%
The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a
tedious book.
%%
The decent moderation of today will be the least human of things
tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good
sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn
too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion
obviously demanded that they burn none at all.
                                -- Maurice Maeterlinck
%%
The deficiency will never show itself during the dry runs.
                                -- Charles P. Boyle
%%
The degree of a country's development is measured by the ratio of the
price of an automobile to that of the cost of a haircut.  The lower the
ratio, the higher the degree of development.
                                -- Charles P. Issawi
%%
The degree of failure is in direct proportion to the effort expended and
to the need for success.
%%
The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the
facts
                                -- the less you know the hotter you get.
                                -- Bertrand Russell
%%
The demonstrably true statements of the sciences which, especially in
recent times, have the uncomfortable inclination never to stay put,
although, at any given moment they are, and must be, valid for all.
                                -- Hannah Arendt
%%
The desire for modeling a prototype is inversely proportional to the
decline of the prototype.
%%
The desire for racial integration increases with the square of the
distance from the actual event.
%%
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with
the acquisition of it.
                                -- Sterne
%%
The desire of power in excess caused angels to fall; the desire of
knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity is no excess,
neither can man or angels come into danger by it.
                                -- Bacon
%%
The devil can quote scripture for his purpose.
                                -- Shakespeare
%%
The devil could change. He was once an angel and may be evolving still.
%%
The devil does not stay where the music is.
%%
The devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape.
%%
The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
%%
The devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and
makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.
%%
The devil is making his pitch.
%%
The devil knew not what he did when he made man politic.
                                -- Shakespeare
%%
The devil would be the best way out as an excuse for God ... But even
so, one can hold God responsible for the existence of the Devil.
%%
The difference between a career and a job is twenty or more hours a
week.
%%
The difference between a chef and a cook seems to be in who cleans up
the kitchen.
                                -- Paul Sweeney
%%
The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this -- the former
eats when he pleases, the latter when he can get it.
                                -- Sir Walter Raleigh
%%
The difference between a successful career and a mediocre one sometimes
consists of leaving about four or five things a day unsaid.
%%
The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right
and doing a thing exactly right.
                                -- Edward Simmons
%%
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often
comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
%%
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science
requires reasoning, while those other subjects merely require
scholarship.
                                -- Lazarus Long
%%
The difficulty of finding any given trail marker is directly
proportional to the importance of the consequences of failing to find
it.
                                -- Milt Barber
%%
The difficulty of getting anything started increases with the square of
the of the number of people involved.
                                -- Jim MacGregor
%%
The difficulty of the coordination task often blinds one to the fact
that a fully coordinated piece of paper is not supposed to be either the
major or the final product of the organization, but it often turns out
that way.
                                -- Amrom Katz
%%
The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe
with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.
                                -- John Updike
%%
The diminutive chains of habit are seldom heavy enough to be felt until
they are too strong to be broken.
                                -- Johnson
%%
The discipline of desire is the background of character.
                                -- John Locke
%%
The distance between the ticket counter and you plane is directly
proportional to the weight of what you are carrying and inversely
proportional to the time remaining before takeoff.
                                -- Gary Witzenburg
%%
The distance from the gate from which you flight departs is inversely
proportionate to the time remaining before the scheduled departure of
the flight.
                                -- Edward S. Mills
%%
The distance you have to park from your apartment increases in
proportion to the weight of the packages you are carrying.
%%
  The doctor hoped to save for science
    An abnormal baby, bred
  Of who knows what mad misalliance ...
    Too late. One head's already dead.
%%
The doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a
cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind.
%%
The dog was created especially for children.  He is the god of frolic.
                                -- Henry Ward Beecher
%%
The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
                                -- Coleridge
%%
The dossier is not the person.
                                -- Dr. John Gall
%%
The duty of the people is to tend to their affairs.  The duty of
government is to help them do it.  This is the pasta of politics.  The
inspired leader, the true prince, no matter how great, can only be sauce
upon the pasta.
                                -- Italo Bombolini
%%
The early bird catches the worm as a rule, but the guy who comes along
later may be having lobster Neuburg and crepes suzette.
                                -- Charles Merrill Smith
%%
The early morning has gold in its mouth.
                                -- Benjamin Franklin
%%
The early sun is gold in the mouth.
%%
The earth, that's nature's mother, is her tomb.
                                -- Shakespeare
%%
  The earthmen dump their cola-bottles,
    Cans and packs and empty jars,
  At random... so the aesthete throttles
    Those who made the mess on Mars.
%%
The easiest way to figure the cost of living is to take your income and
add ten percent.
%%
The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a
replacement.
                                -- Jack Rosenbaum
%%
The easiest way to refold a road map is differently.
%%
The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on
weather forecasters.
                                -- Jean-Paul Kauffmann
%%
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
                                -- Robert E. Lee
%%
The effectiveness of a politician varies in inverse proportion to his
commitment to principle.
                                -- Sam Shaffer
%%
The effort expended by the bureaucracy in defending any error is in
direct proportion to the size of the error.
                                -- John Nies
%%
The effort required to correct course increases geometrically with time.
%%
The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.
                                -- Shakespeare
%%
The end of man is an action, and not a thought, though it were the
noblest.
                                -- Carlyle
%%
The energy required to change either one of two states will always be
more than you wish to expend, but never so much as to make the task
impossible.
                                -- David Gerrold
%%
The error-detection and correction capabilities of any system will serve
as the key to understanding the type of errors which they cannot handle.
                                -- Tom Gibb
%%
The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday
experience.
%%
The essence of life is taking over.
%%
The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interr'd with
their bones.
                                -- Shakespeare
%%
The evil you teach us, we will execute, and it shall go hard but we will
better the instruction.
                                -- Shakespeare
%%
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with
interest, about thirty years after date.
                                -- Colton
%%
The expenditure of funds is critical -- engineers and scientists should
not be permitted to authorize any purchase.
                                -- Richard F. Moore
%%
The expert judgement of an institution, when the matters involve
continuation of the institution's operations, is totally predictable,
and hence the finding is totally worthless.
                                -- Robert N. Kharasch
%%
The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is the most likely to
be correct.
%%
The eye sees not itself but by reflection, by some other things.
                                -- Shakespeare
%%
The eyes of the emperor are everywhere.
                                -- Brodrig
%%
The fact is, squire, the moment a man takes to a good pipe, he becomes a
philosopher; it's the poor man's friend; it calms the mind, soothes the
temper, and makes a man patient under troubles; it has made more good
men good husbands, kind masters, indulgent fathers and honest fellows,
than any other thing on this universal world.
                                -- Richard Haliburton
%%
The fact, in short, is that freedom, to be meaningful in an organized
society, must consist of an amalgam of hierarchy of freedoms and
restraints.
                                -- Samuel Hendel
%%
The faculty expands its activity to fit whatever space is available, so
that more space is always required.
                                -- Thomas L. Martin
%%
The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than
other people: I was saved, they were damned ... Our hymns were loaded
with arrogance -- self-congratulation on how cozy we were with the
Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else
would catch come judgement day.
                                -- Robert Heinlein
%%
The farther away from the entrance of the market (theater, or any other
given location) that you have to park, the closer the space vacated by
the car that pulls away as you walk up to the door.
                                -- Judith deMille Berson
%%
The faster the plane, the narrower the seats.
                                -- John H. Durrell
%%
The fault lies not with our technology but with our systems.
                                -- Roger Levin
%%
  The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
  But in ourselves that we are underlings.
                                -- William Shakespeare
%%
The fawning, sneaking, and flattering hypocrite, that will do, or be
anything, for his own advantage.
                                -- Stillingfleet
%%
The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the
fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality.
                                -- Will and Ariel Durant
%%
The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods.
                                -- Socrates
%%
The final answer will exceed the magnitude or precision or both of the
calculator.
%%
The finding of threats to security by a security office is totally
predictable, and hence the finding is totally worthless.
                                -- Robert N. Kharasch
%%
The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is
most strongly welded by the fiercest fire.
%%
The first 90 percent of the task takes 90 percent of the time, the last
10 percent takes the other 90 percent.
%%
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.  All sin is easy
after that.
                                -- Baily
%%
The first creation of God in the works of the days was the light of the
sense, the last was the light of the reason; and his Sabbath work ever
since is the illumination of the spirit.
                                -- Bacon
%%
The first draught a man drinks ought to be for thirst, the second for
nourishment, the third for pleasure, the fourth for madness.
%%
The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively
disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the
task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confuse good
with immobility, and evil with activity.
%%
The first impression one gets of a new ruler and his brains is from
seeing the men he has chosen to have around him.
%%
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next, good sense, the
third, good humor, and the fourth, wit.
                                -- Sir William Temple
%%
The first myth of management is that it exists.  The second myth of
management is that success equals skill.
                                -- Robert Heller
%%
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
                                -- Paul Ehrlich
%%
The first sample is always the best.
                                -- William K. Wright
%%
The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
                                -- Cecil
%%
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity, in a girl it is
boldness. The two sexes have a tendency to approach, and each assumes
the qualities of the other.
                                -- Victor Hugo
%%
The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my
tongue.
%%
The first thing in the human personality that dissolves in alcohol is
dignity.
%%
The first time you buy a house you see how pretty the paint is and buy
it. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites. It's
the same with men.
                                -- Lupe Velez
%%
The flood of my tears washed out the bridge of my nose.
%%
The food that I like best -- the food that makes me hungry just to think
of -- is very simple ... When I cook I try never to get too far away
from that kind of simplicity.
                                -- Jeremiah Tower
%%
The forces of a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the
rich richer and the poor poorer.
                                -- Jawaharial Nehru
%%
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy
soul with hooks of steel; but do not dull thy palm with entertainment of
each new hatched, unfledged comrade.
                                -- Shakespeare
%%
The fullest instruction, and the fullest enjoyment are never derived
from books, till we have ventilated the ideas thus obtained, in free and
easy chat with others.
                                -- William Matthews
%%
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
                                -- Norman Mailer
%%
The fundamental idea of good is that it consists in preserving life, in
favoring it, in wanting to bring it to its highest value, and evil
consists in destroying life, doing it injury, hindering its development.
                                -- Albert Schweitzer
%%
The further an individual is from the poorhouse, the more expert one
becomes on the ghetto.
                                -- James L. Davis
%%
The fury engendered by the misspelling of a name in a column is in
direct ratio to the obscurity of the mentionee.
                                -- Alan Deitz
%%
The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined.
He adds his soul to every other's loss, and by the act of suicide,
renounces earth to forfeit heaven.
                                -- Colton
%%
  The gates of hell are open night and day;
  Smooth the descent, and easy is the way;
  But to return, and view the cheerful skies,
  In this the task and mighty labor dies.
                                -- Dryden
%%
The general prizes most the fortress which took the longest siege.
                                -- Edward Garrett
%%
The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
%%
The goal of all life is death.
                                -- Sigmund Freud
%%
The goal of yesterday will be the starting point of tomorrow.
                                -- Carlyle
%%
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
                                -- Sophocles
%%
  The good are better made by ill,
  As odors crush'd are sweeter still.
                                -- Rogers
%%
The good die young -- because they see it's no use living if you've got
to be good.
%%
  The good need fear no law,
  It is his safety, and the bad man's awe.
                                -- Massinger, Middleton, and Rowley
%%
The government [is] extremely fond of amassing great quantities of
statistics. These are raised to the nth degree, the cube roots are
extracted, and the results are arranged into elaborate and impressive
displays.  What must be kept ever in mind, however, is that in every
case, the figures are first put down by a village watchman, and he puts
down anything he damn well pleases.
                                -- Sir Josiah Stamp
%%
The great creative individual ... is capable of more wisdom and virtue
than collective man ever can be.
                                -- John Stuart Mill
%%
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the
mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with
the accumulation of others.
                                -- Tryon Edwards
%%
  The great god Ra whose shrine once covered acres
  Is filler now for crossword-puzzle makers.
%%
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are
content with failure.
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The great secret of life is never to be in the way of others.
                                -- Haliburton
%%
The great truths are too important to be new.
                                -- Somerset Maugham
%%
The greater the number of professionals (advanced degrees preferred)
assigned to a project, the greater the progress.
                                -- Richard F. Moore
%%
The greatest danger to human beings is their consciousness of the
trivialities of their aims.
                                -- Gerald Brennen
%%
The greatest genius is never so great as when is is chastised and
subdued by the highest reason.
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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of
zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
                                -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis
%%
The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and
subdued by the highest reason.
                                -- Colton
%%
The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
                                -- Carlyle
%%
The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in greatest
concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and
of which he is profoundly ignorant.
                                -- Shaftesbury
%%
The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
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The greatest truths are the simplest; so are the greatest men.
%%
The greatness of kings is made at the margin; the greatness of
legislatures, at the mean.  That is to say, a monarch is judged by
individual virtues and performance, but no legislature can be called
great because it contained one or a few impressive individuals, to whom
it paid no heed.  The standard of judgement for monarchs and
legislatures is always the same:  the happiness and well-being of the
people.              -- Michael Scully
%%
The guard dies, but never surrenders.
                                -- Fougemont
%%
The guy was all over the road. I had to swerve a number of times before
I hit him.
%%
The hardest thing is to disguise your feelings when you put a lot of
relatives on the train for home.
%%
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
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The heart will break, yet brokenly live on.
                                -- Lord Byron
%%
The herd instinct among forecasters make sheep look like independent
thinker.
                                -- Edgar R. Fiedler
%%
The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W. H.
Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.
                                -- George Orwell
%%
The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind.
                                -- Gen. Joe Stilwell
%%
The higher the tuition, the fewer days they spend in school.
                                -- Frank Mankiewicz
%%
The higher you go the more dependent you become on others.
%%
The higher, the fewer.
%%
The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of
procedural safeguards.
                                -- Justice Felix Frankfurter
%%
The history of liberty is the history of resistance ... [it is a]
history of the limitation of governmental power.
                                -- Woodrow Wilson
%%
The history of the world is the record of man in quest of his daily
bread and butter.
%%
The hole and the patch should be commensurate.
                                -- Thomas Jefferson
%%
The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure.  It is the
one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.
                                -- G. K. Chesterson
%%
The honeymoon is over when he phones that he'll be late for supper --
and she has already left a note that it's in the refrigerator.
                                -- Bill Lawrence
%%
The human heart is often the victim of the sensations of the moment;
success intoxicates it to presumption, and disappointment dejects and
terrifies it.
                                -- Volney
%%
The human race never solves any of its problems -- it only outlives
them.
                                -- Solomon Short
%%
  The hypnotist is fascinating
    Mary in her modest gown,
  Meantime mentally debating:
    Is she blonde the whole way down?
%%
The idea is for a woman to make her life as big, as challenging as she
can, and know that during that life there will be men who will love her
for what she is trying to be, just as there have always been men who
loved her for not trying to be anything at all.
                                -- Lee Grant
%%
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
                                -- Ashley Montagu
%%
The implied convertibility between a unit of real money produced by
labor and an article of wealth created by human labor for the market
must be assured. Therefore, the value of the monetary unit should have a
real objective regulator.
                                -- Lewis E. Lehrman
%%
The importance of the man and his job, in that relative order, rises in
direct proportion to the distance separating his audience from his home
office.
%%
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf
has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when
it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.
                                -- Will Rogers
%%
The income tax has make more liars out of the American people than golf
has.
                                -- Will Rogers
%%
The inevitable result of improved and enlarged communication between
different levels in a heirarchy is a vastly increased area of
misunderstanding.
                                -- Thomas L. Martin
%%
The information you can obtain costs more than you want to pay!
%%
The information you have is not what you want.
%%
The information you need is not what you can obtain.
%%
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the
inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
                                -- Winston Churchill
%%
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
                                -- Mohammed
%%
The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than
his rudeness could be; because he shows you, by his manner, that he
thinks it mere condescension in him; and that his goodness alone bestows
upon you what you have no pretense to claim.
                                -- Chesterfield
%%
The integral of the gravitational potential taken around any loop trail
you choose to hike always comes out positive.
                                -- Milt Barber
%%
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven
and reflects it.
                                -- Hare
%%
The intelligence of any discussion diminishes with the square of the
number of participants.
                                -- Adam Walinsky
%%
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man
almost nothing.
                                -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
%%
The intensity of movie publicity is in inverse ratio to the quality of
the movie.
                                -- Gene Shalit
%%
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows up to others,
but hides us from ourselves, and we injure our own cause, in the opinion
of the world, when we too passionately and eagerly defend it.
                                -- Colton
%%
The job of satire is to frighten and enlighten.
                                -- Richard Condon
%%
  The keen spirit
  Seized the prompt occasion -- makes the thought
  Start into instant action, and at once
  Plans and performs, resolves and executes.
                                -- Hannah Moore
%%
  The knob that fires the mighty missile
    May make World War Three begin,
  Write our fate in fires of fissile --
    Hey! You fool! You've knocked it in!
%%
The lagging activity in a project will invariably be found in the area
where the highest overtime rates lie waiting.
                                -- Charles P. Boyle
%%
The larger the project or job, the less time there is to do it.
                                -- George A. Daher
%%
  The larva from its dusty cranny
    Danny took, and laid on cloth
  To watch it hatch ...  Too bad for Danny!
    He thought the pupa held a moth.
%%
The last rush-hour express bus to your neighborhood leaves five minutes
before you get off work.
                                -- John Corcoran
%%
The last thing one knows is what to put first.
                                -- Pascal
%%
The last, best fruit which comes to perfection, even in the kindliest
soul, is, tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the
unforbearing, warmth of heart toward the cold, philanthropy toward the
misanthropic.
                                -- Richter
%%
The leader who can enlist cooperation and respect, without having to
pull rank, has power of the most positive kind.
%%
The leadership of the privileged has passed away; but it has not been
succeeded by the leadership of the eminent.  We have entered the region
of mass effects.
                                -- Winston Churchill
%%
The legibility of a copy is inversely proportional to its importance.
%%
The length of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people
present.
                                -- Eileen Shanahan
%%
The length of any meeting is inversely proportional to the length of the
agenda for that meeting.
                                -- G. Robert McLaughlin
%%
The length of debate varies inversely with the complexity of the issue.
                                -- Robert Knowles
%%
The less a thing can be proved, the angrier we get when we argue about
it.
%%
The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you'll
be missed if you don't show up for work.
%%
The less some people know the more eager they are to tell you about it.
%%
The less there is between you and the environment, the more you
appreciate the environment.
%%
The less you enjoy serving on committees, the more likely you are to be
pressed to do so.  (Explanation:  If you do not like committees, you
keep quiet, nod your head, and look wise while thinking of something
else and thereby acquire the reputation of being a judicious and
cooperative colleague; if you enjoy committees, you talk a lot, make
many suggestions and are regarded by the other members as a nuisance.
                                -- Professor Charles P. Issawi
%%
The life expectancy of a television comedian is proportional to the
total amount of exposure on the medium.
%%
The life of a cigarette is proportional to the intensity of the protests
from the non-smokers.                       -- Raj K. Dhawan
%%
The life of a pious minister is visible rhetoric.
                                -- Hooker
%%
The light of a hundred stars does not equal the light of the moon.
%%
The likelihood of anything happening is in direct proportion to the
amount of trouble it will cause if it does happen.
                                -- Sam W. Warren
%%
  The limerick is furtive and mean;
  You must keep her in close quarantine,
    Or she sneaks to the slums
    and promptly becomes
  Disorderly, drunk and obscene.
%%
The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get
much sleep.
                                -- Woody Allen
%%
The little mind who loves itself, will write and think with the vulgar;
but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road,
from universal benevolence.
                                -- Oliver Goldsmith
%%
The little sweet doth kill much bitterness.
%%
The local density of mosquitos is inversely proportional to your
remaining repellant.
                                -- Milt Barber
%%
The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
                                -- Sir Thomas Browne
%%
The longer ahead you plan a special event, and the more special it is,
the more likely it is to go wrong.
                                -- David and Jane Evelyn
%%
The longer the title, the less important the job.
                                -- Robert Shrum
%%
The loss of liberty in general would soon follow the suppression of the
liberty of the press; for it is an essential branch of liberty, so
perhaps it is the best preservative of the whole.
                                -- John Peter Zenger
%%
The love of money is the root of all evil; which while some coveted
after they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through
with many sorrows.
                                -- I Timothy VI, 10
%%
The luck that is ordained for you will be coveted by others.
%%
The main beneficiaries of federal aid are those states that most oppose
the principle.
                                -- Bob Smith
%%
The main impact of the computer has been the provision of unlimited jobs
for clerks.
%%
The majority of us are for free speech only when it deals with those
subjects concerning which we have no intense convictions.
                                -- Edmund B. Chafee
%%
The man who builds and wants wherewith to pay Provides a home from which
to run away.
                                -- Young
%%
The man who has ceased to learn ought not to be allowed to wander around
loose in these dangerous days.
                                -- M. M. Coady
%%
The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors,
is like a potato -- the only thing belonging to him is underground.
                                -- Sir T. Overbury
%%
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he
decides, never decides.
                                -- Henri-Frederic Amiel
%%
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor
judge of distance.
%%
The man who sees the consistency in things is a wit, the man who sees
the inconsistency in things is a humorist.
                                -- G. K. Chesterton
%%
The man who smiles when things go wrong, has thought of someone he can
blame it on.
%%
The man who will live above his present circumstances is in great danger
of living in a little time much beneath them.
                                -- Addison
%%
The manner of giving, shows the character of the giver, more than the
gift itself.
                                -- Lavater
%%
The march of the human mind is slow.
                                -- Edmund Burke
%%
The master's eye makes the horse fat.
%%
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he
never would be found out.
                                -- Thomas Babington Macaulay
%%
The measure of choosing well is whether a man likes what he has chosen.
                                -- Lamb
%%
The mechanistic world view, taking the play of physical particles as
ultimate reality, found its expression in a civilization which glorifies
physical technology that has led eventually to the catastrophes of our
time. Possibly the model of the world as a great organization can help
to reinforce the sense of reverence for the living which we have almost
lost in the last sanguinary decades of human history.
                                -- Ludwig von Bertalanffy
%%
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
                                -- J. Paul Getty
%%
The meek shall inherit the Earth. In three foot by six foot plots.
                                -- Lazarus Long
%%
The mere act of hearing or reading wise statements and sound advice does
little for anyone.  In the process of learning, the learner's dynamic
cooperation is required.
%%
  The mind of man is vastly like a hive;
  His thoughts are busy ever -- all alive;
  But here the simile will go no further;
  For bees are making honey, one and all;
  Man's thoughts are busy in producing gall,
  Committing, as it were, self-murther.
                                -- Dr. Wolcott
%%
The mind ought sometimes to be amused, that it may the better return to
thought, and to itself.
                                -- Phaedrus
%%
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
                                -- Seneca
%%
The minute a man is convinced that he is interesting, he isn't.
%%
The minute you sign a client is the minute you start to lose him.
                                -- James M. Blankenship
%%
The misnaming of fields of study is so common as to lead to what might
be general systems laws. For example, Frank Harary once suggested the
law that any field that had the word "science" in its name was
guaranteed thereby not to be a science. He would cite as examples
Military Science, Library Science, Political Science, Homemaking
Science, Social Science, and Computer Science.
                                -- Gerald Weinberg
%%
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
                                -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
%%
The modern child will answer you back before you've said anything.
                                -- Laurence J. Peter
%%
The moment a woman marries, some terrible revolution happens in her
system; all her good qualities vanish, presto, like eggs out of a
conjurers box.  'Tis true that they appear on the other side of the box,
but for the husband, they are gone forever.
                                -- Bulwer
%%
The moment you forecast, you know you're going to be wrong, you just
don't know when and in which direction.
                                -- Edgar R. Fiedler
%%
The moment you have worked out an answer, start checking it.  It
probably isn't right.
                                -- Edmund C. Berkeley
%%
  The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees,
  Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees;
  Three centuries he grows, and three he stays
  Supreme in state; and in three more decays.
                                -- Dryden
%%
The moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.  For every false
word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or
vanity, the price has to be paid at last.
                                -- J. A. Froude
%%
The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law
of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.
                                -- Sir James Frazer
%%
The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.
                                -- Mme. de Stael
%%
The more a recruit knew about a given subject, the better chance he had
of receiving an assignment involving some other subject.
                                -- Dr. R. F. Gumperson
%%
The more campaigning, the better.
                                -- Larry O'Brien
%%
The more complex the idea or technology, the more simpleminded is the
opposition.
%%
The more enthusiastic, unruly, and large the candidate's crowds in the
week before the election, the less likely he is to carry the area.
                                -- Frank Mankiewicz
%%
The more heavily a man is supposed to be taxed, the more power he has to
escape being taxed.
                                -- Diogenes
%%
The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.  The
affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.
                                -- Lavater
%%
The more intelligent and competent a woman is in her adult life, the
less likely she is to have received an adequate amount of romantic
attention in adolescence.
                                -- Susan Jacoby
%%
The more qualified candidates who are available, the more likely the
compromise will be on the candidate whose main qualification is a
non-threatening incompetence.           -- Mark B. Cohen
%%
The more right one is, the more careful he should be to express his
opinion tactfully.  The other fellow never likes to be proved wrong.
                                -- John Luther
%%
The more the change, the more it is the same thing.
                                -- Alphonse Karr
%%
The more time you spend in reporting on what you are doing, the less
time you have to do it in.  Stability is achieved when you spend all
your time doing nothing but reporting on the nothing you are doing.
%%
The more unworkable the urban plan, the greater the probability of
implementation.
                                -- Robert Wood
%%
The more urgent the need for decision, the less apparent becomes the
identity of the decision-maker.
%%
The more we love, the nearer we are to hate.
                                -- La Rochefoucauld
%%
The more wit the less courage.
                                -- Thomas Fuller
%%
The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.
                                -- Zimmerman
%%
The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without any
high pretensions to an oppressive greatness; one who loves life, and
understands the use of it; obliging, alike at all hours; above all, of a
golden temper, and steadfast as an anchor.  For such a one we gladly
change the great genius, the most brilliant wit, the profoundest
thinker.
                                -- Lessing
%%
The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the
contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea ... this pollution is for
the most part irrecoverable.
                                -- Rachel Carson
%%
The most certain sign of being born with great qualities is to be born
without envy.
                                -- La Rochefoucauld
%%
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
                                -- Calvin Coolidge
%%
The most difficult light bulb to replace burns out first and most
frequently.
                                -- Joe Anderson
%%
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
                                -- Thales
%%
The most egotistical person we've ever heard of is the one who remarked
that he had only been wrong once in his life and that was when he
thought he was wrong but wasn't.
%%
The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.
                                -- Preem Palver, First Speaker
%%
The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be
regarded.  The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or at nine
at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if
he sees you at a Billiard table, or hears your voice at a Tavern, when
you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day.
                                -- Benjamin Franklin
%%
The most undesirable things are the most certain (e. g., death and
taxes).
                                -- Martin S. Kottmeyer
%%
The most utterly lost of all days, is that in which you have not once
laughed.
                                -- Chamfort
%%
The narrower the mind the broader the statement.
                                -- Ted Cook
%%
The nation had the lion's heart.  I had the luck to give the roar.
                                -- Winston Churchill
%%
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to
gain ground.
                                -- Thomas Jefferson
%%
The nearer the bone the sweeter the meat.
%%
The net weight of you boots is proportional to the cube of the number of
hours you have been on the trail.
                                -- Milt Barber
%%
The new electronic independence recreates the world in the image of a
global village.
%%
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
                                -- Samuel Johnson
%%
The next class is always three buildings away on a rainy day.
                                -- M. M. Johnston
%%
The notion of the Trinity of Gods has enfeebled the belief in one God. A
multiplication of beliefs acts as a division of belief; and in
proportion as anything is divided it is weakened.
%%
The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve
the state is essentially a Communist notion ... In a free society these
institutions must be wholly free -- which is to say that their function
is to serve as checks upon the state.
                                -- Alan Barth
%%
The number of adjectives and verbs that are added to the description of
a menu item is in inverse proportion to the quality of the resulting
dish.
                                -- John Calkins
%%
The number of errors in any piece of writing rises in proportion to the
writer's reliance on secondary sources.
                                -- Harold Faber
%%
The number of errors make is equal to the sum of the "squares" involved.
%%
The number of letters written to the editor is inversely proportional to
the importance of the article.
                                -- Robert L. Marcus
%%
The number of stones in your boot is directly proportional to the number
of hours you have been on the trail.
                                -- Milt Barber
%%
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves
throughout their lives.
                                -- Robert Maynard Hutchins
%%
The odds are 6:5 that if one has late classes, one's roommate will have
the earliest possible classes.
%%
The office space and salaries of college administrators are in inverse
proportion to those of the instructors.
                                -- M. M. Johnston
%%
The oil can is mightier than the sword.
                                -- Everett Dirksen
%%
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of
continually asking questions.
                                -- Bishop Mandell Creighton
%%
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment
to the next.
                                -- Mignon McLaughlin
%%
The only difference between a fool and a criminal who attacks a system
is that the fool attacks unpredictably and on a broader front.
                                -- Tom Gibb
%%
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence,
to live as if he were poor.
                                -- William Temple
%%
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
%%
The only important result of a meeting is agreement about next steps.
                                -- Charles Wolf, Jr.
%%
The only programs a grown-up can possibly stand are those that cater to
those pre-adolescent fantasies that most have never abandoned.
                                -- Richard Schickel
%%
The only rose without thorns is friendship.
%%
The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change --
and we all instinctively avoid it.
                                -- E. B. White
%%
The only thing more reliable than Magik is one's friends.
                                -- Macbeth, King of Scotland.
%%
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do
nothing.
%%
The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having
to pay an income tax.
%%
The only thing worse than an expert is someone who thinks he's an
expert.
%%
The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are
disorder, friction, and malperformance.
%%
The only unbreakable rule: To thine own self be true, and it follows as
the night the day that you cannot be false to any man.
%%
The only way a reporter should look at a politician is down.
                                -- Frank Kent, Baltimore Sun
%%
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is, by exercise and
abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
                                -- Sir William Temple
%%
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
                                -- Voltaire
%%
The only way to conquer fear is to keep doing the thing you fear to do.
%%
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them
to the impossible.
                                -- Arthur C. Clarke
%%
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it....I can resist
everything but temptation.
                                -- Oscar Wilde
%%
The only winner in the war of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.
                                -- Solomon Short
%%
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which
particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and
repress them.
                                -- Karl Marx
%%
The opportunity for graft equals the plethora of legal requirements
multiplied by the number of architects, engineers, and builders.
%%
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds, and the
pessimist knows it.
                                -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
%%
The organization of any bureaucracy is very much like a septic tank --
the really big chunks always rise to the top.
                                -- Professor John Imhoff
%%
The organization of any program reflects the organization of the people
who develop it.
                                -- Bill Gray
%%
The other car collided with mine without giving warning of its
intentions.
%%
The other line moves faster.  This applies to all lines -- bank,
supermarket, tollbooth, customs, and so on.  And don't try to change
lines.  The Other Line -- the one you were in originally -- will then
move faster.
                                -- Barbara Ettorre
%%
The passions and desires, like the two twists of a rope, mutually mix
one with the other, and twine inextricably round the heart; producing
good if moderately indulged; but certain destruction, if suffered to
become inordinate.
                                -- Burton
%%
The passions are the only orators that always persuade.
                                -- La Rochefoucauld
%%
The passions, like heavy bodies down steep hills, once in motion, move
themselves, and know no ground but the bottom.
                                -- Fuller
%%
The passions often engender their contraries.
                                -- La Rochefoucauld
%%
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
                                -- Grey's Elegy
%%
The patient can oftener do without the doctor, than the doctor without
the patient.
                                -- Zimmerman
%%
The pedestrian had no idea where to go, so I ran over him.
%%
The pedestrian works where I work. She is a standards coordinator. Funny
she should be the one I hit.
%%
The pen is mightier than the sword; and easier to write with.
%%
The people always want to hear when the mighty stag is brought to the
ground by a pack of common dogs.
                                -- Babbaluche the cobbler
%%
The people most preoccupied with titles and status are usually the least
deserving of them.
%%
The people who are rising in the world take over.  The people who are
sinking are taken over.
                                -- Sepp von Plum
%%
The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
                                -- John Stuart Mill
%%
The person who buys the most raffle tickets has the least chance of
winning.
                                -- Dr. R. F. Gumperson
%%
The person who considers five or six possible solutions to a problem is
more apt to find the right answer than the person who only considers one
or two.
%%
The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as
not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those
Indians who are found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a
bob at the nose.
                                -- Oliver Goldsmith
%%
The person you rejected yesterday could make you happy, if you say yes.
%%
The persons hardest to convince they're at the retirement age are
children at bedtime.
                                -- Shannon Fife
%%
The philosophers have only interpreted the world; the thing, however, is
to change it.
                                -- Karl Marx
%%
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
                                -- Henry Ward Beecher
%%
The phone will not ring until you leave your desk and walk to the other
end of the building.
                                -- Linda A. Lawyer
%%
The phrase "we(I)(you) simply MUST ... " designates something that need
not be done. "That goes without saying" is a red warning. "Of course"
means you had best check it yourself. These small-change cliches and
others like them, when read correctly, are reliable channel markers.
                                -- Lazarus Long
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  The planets in their distant courses
    Exert a baleful influence.
  They stack the cards, they slow down horses --
    My God, their power must be immense!
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The plural of spouse is spice.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those
who have not got it.
                                -- George Bernard Shaw
%%
The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we
must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.
                                -- Justice Robert Jackson
%%
The primary aim of all government regulation of economic life of the
community should be, not to supplant the system of private economic
enterprise, but to make it work.
                                -- Carl Becker
%%
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a
pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
                                -- Sydney J. Harris
%%
The primary requisite for any new tax law is for it to exempt enough
voters to win the next election.
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The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the
opening of new frontiers.
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The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but
man only.
                                -- Thomas Hobbs
%%
The probability of a young man meeting a desirable and receptive young
woman increases by pyramidical progression when he is already in the
company of (1) a date, (2) his wife, (3) a better looking and richer
male friend.
                                -- Ronald H. Beifeld
%%
The probability of an event's occurring varies directly with the
perversity of the inanimate object involved and inversely with product
of its desirability and the effort expended to produce it.
                                -- Walter Mule
%%
The problem of civil society is twofold:  how to identify and select
wise rulers, and how to assure that their wisdom will be used for the
benefit of the ruled -- or of the common good as distinct from their
private good.
                                -- Harry V. Jaffa
%%
The problem-solving process will always break down at the point at which
it is possible to determine who caused the problem.
%%
The product of an arithmetical computation is the answer to an equation;
it is not the solution to a problem.
                                -- G. O. Ashley
%%
The professional quality of the faculty tends to be inversely
proportional to the importance it attaches to space and equipment.
                                -- Thomas L. Martin
%%
The profoundly wise do not declaim against superficial knowledge in
others, as much as the profoundly ignorant.
                                -- Colton
%%
The public is not made up of people who get their names in the papers.
                                -- Woodrow Wilson
%%
The puritans hated bearbaiting not because it gave pain to the bear, but
because if gave pleasure to the spectators.
                                -- Macaulay
%%
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
                                -- Bernard Malamud
%%
The purpose of satire is to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion
and cozy half-truth. And our business, as I see it, is to put it back
again.
                                -- Michael Flanders
%%
The quality of a department is inversely proportional to the number of
courses it lists in its catalogue.
                                -- Professor Joel Hildebrand
%%
The quality of legislation passed to deal with a problem is inversely
proportional to the volume of media clamor that brought it on.
                                -- G. Ray Funkhouser
%%
The quality of your work will be affected as much by your attitude as by
your skill.
%%
The quantity of rhetoric has been directly proportional to the lack of
action.
                                -- Arthur Herzog
%%
The question, "Who ought to be boss?" is like asking, "Who ought to be
tenor in the quartet?"  Obviously the man who can sing tenor.
                                -- Henry Ford
%%
The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the
conservative adopts them.
                                -- Mark Twain
%%
The radical novelty in modern science lies precisely in the rejection of
the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the
forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the
preferences of the human heart.
                                -- Walter Lippmann
%%
The rain has such a friendly sound to one who's six feet underground.
                                -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
%%
The rate of hospital admissions responds to the bed availability.  Or,
if we insist on installing more beds, they will tend to get filled.
                                -- Dr. Milton Roemer
%%
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but
that men will being to think like computers.
%%
The real fight today is against inhuman, relentless exercise of
capitalistic power ... The present struggle in which we are engaged is
for social and industrial justice.
                                -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis
%%
The reason I know my youth is all spent?  My get up and go got up and
went.
                                -- Len Ingebrigston
%%
The reason for the rush is the delay and, conversely the reason for the
delay is the rush.
%%
The remaining distance to your chosen campsite remains constant as
twilight approaches.
                                -- Milt Barber
%%
The reputation of a man is like his shadow:  It sometimes follows and
sometimes precedes him, it is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter
than his natural size.
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The reverence of a man's self is, next to religion, the chiefest bridle
of all vices.
                                -- Lord Bacon
%%
The reward of energy, enterprise, and thrift -- is taxes.
%%
The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer.  The haves get more, the
have-nots die.
%%
The rider likes best the horse which needs most breaking in.
                                -- Edward Garrett
%%
The rights we have today we may consider natural rights, but they were
won by blood, sweat, sacrifice, and death.
                                -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
%%
The river is moving; the blackbird must be flying.
%%
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
                                -- William Blake
%%
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
                                -- Samuel Johnson
%%
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.  And littered with
sloppy analysis!
%%
  The ruling passion, be it what it will,
  The ruling passion conquers reason still.
                                -- Alexander Pope
%%
The scholar without good-breeding is a pedant, the philosopher a cynic,
the soldier a brute, and every man disagreeable.
                                -- Chesterfield
%%
The scientist is at the moving edge of what's happening.
                                -- Dr. Gerald M. Edelman
%%
The seal of truth is on thy gallant form, for none but cowards lie.
                                -- Murphy
%%
The secret of education is respecting the pupil.
                                -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
%%
The secret to winning the support of large groups of people is positive
thinking.
                                -- Napolean Bonaparte
%%
The seeds of our own punishment are sown at the same time we commit sin.
                                -- Hesiod
%%
The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest
is reaped in age by plain.
                                -- Colton
%%
The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun.  The
brightness of our life is gone, shadows of the enening fall around us,
and the world seems but a dim reflection itself -- a broader shadow.  We
look forward into the coming lonely night; the soul withdraws itself.
Then stars arise, and the night is wholly.
                                -- Longfellow
%%
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the
sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him
for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
                                -- Abraham Lincoln
%%
The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn
the lessons we have been taught, to remount first principles, and to
take nobody's word about them.
                                -- Bolingbroke
%%
The shortest answer is doing the thing.
%%
The shortest measurable interval of time is the time between the moment
I put a little extra aside for a sudden emergency and the arrival of
that emergency.
%%
The simple but difficult arts of paying attention, copying accurately,
following an argument, detecting an ambiguity or a false inference,
testing guesses by summoning up contrary instances, organizing one's
time and one's thought for study -- all these arts ... cannot be taught
in the air but only through the difficulties of a defined subject;  they
cannot be taught in one course on one year, but must be acquired
gradually in dozens of connections.
                                -- Jacques Barzun
%%
The simple realization that there are other points of view is the
beginning of wisdom.  Understanding what they are is a great step.  The
final test is understanding why they are held.
                                -- Charles M. Campbell
%%
The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.
%%
The size of each of the stones in you boot is directly proportional to
the number of hours you have been on the trail.
                                -- Milt Barber
%%
The social problems raised by science must be faced and solved by the
humanities.
                                -- Harold Dodd
%%
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a
humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because
philosophy is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor
good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
                                -- John W. Gardner
%%
The solution to a problem changes the problem.
                                -- John Peers
%%
The soul of this man is in his clothes.
                                -- Shakespeare
%%
The sound of laughter has always seemed to me the most civilized music
in the universe.
                                -- Peter Ustinov
%%
  The spaceship with its human cargo
    Speeds from star to blazing star.
  The captain, humming Handel's Largo,
    Wonders where the hell they are.
%%
The specialist learns more and more about less and less until, finally,
he knows everything about nothing; whereas the generalist learns less
and less about more and more until, finally, he knows nothing about
everything.
%%
The speed at which the legislative process seems to work is in inverse
proportion to your enthusiasm for the bill.  If you want a bill to move
quickly, committee hearings, the rules committee, and legislative
procedures appear to be roadblocks to democracy.  If you do not want the
bill to pass, such procedures are essential to furthering representative
government, etc., etc.
                                -- Pierre S. du Pont
%%
The speed of exit of a civil servant is directly proportional to the
quality of his service.
                                -- Ralph Nader
%%
The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is always
right.
                                -- Judge Learned Hand
%%
The spirit of public service will rise, and the bureaucracy will
multiply itself much faster, in time of grave national concern.
                                -- Taylor Branch
%%
The splendor of an editor's speech and the splendor of his newspaper are
inversely related to the distance between the city in which he makes his
speech and the city in which he publishes his paper.
                                -- Ben Bragdikian
%%
The squeaky hinge gets the oil.
                                -- Gene Franklin
%%
The squeaky wheel gets the grease, but the yapping dog gets kicked.
%%
The star of riches is shining upon you.
%%
The stature of a science is commonly measured by the degree to which it
makes use of mathematics.
                                -- S. S. Stevens
%%
The sterile radical is basically ... conservative. He is afraid to let
go of the ideas and beliefs he picked up in his youth lest his life be
seen as empty and wasted.
                                -- Eric Hoffer
%%
The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition
of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the
emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary
restraints.
                                -- Justice Abe Fortas
%%
The structure of the joke is ... the juxtaposition of the trivial  and
the mundane ... We have to reconcile the paradox of it all.  The joke
mirrors the paradox.
                                -- Woody Allen
%%
The success of any venture will be helped by prayer, even in the wrong
denomination.
                                -- Charles P. Boyle
%%
The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.
                                -- Augustine
%%
  The summer day has clos'd -- the sun is set;
  Well have they done their office, those bright hours,
  The latest of whose train goes swiftly out
  In the red west.
                                -- Bryant
%%
The sumptuousness of a company's annual report is in inverse proportion
to its profitability that year.
                                -- Irving Hale
%%
The sun goes down just when you need it the most.
                                -- Jon Kirkup
%%
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had
they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.
                                -- Havelock Ellis
%%
The superior man rises by lifting others.
                                -- Robert Ingersoll
%%
The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
                                -- Mark Twain
%%
The surest way to encourage violence is to give in to it.
%%
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love; The taint of earth, the odor
of the skies is in it.
                                -- Bailey
%%
The system is a sacred tin god: never break it or dent it when you can
get what you want by bending it.
%%
The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.
                                -- Shakespeare
%%
The tasks to do immediately are the minor ones; otherwise you'll for get
them. The major ones are often better to defer.  They usually need more
time for reflection.  Besides, if you forget them, they'll remind you.
                                -- Charles Wolf, Jr.
%%
The tears of penitents are the wine of angels.
                                -- St. Bernard
%%
The telephone pole was approaching fast, I was attempting to swerve out
of it's path when it struck my front end.
%%
The temple of our purest thoughts is -- silence!
                                -- Mrs. Hale
%%
The tendencies of democracies are, in all things, to mediocrity, since
the tastes, knowledge and principles of the majority form the tribunal
of appeal.
                                -- James Fenimore Cooper
%%
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan values and ends
is ... the source of all religious fanaticism.
%%
The territory behind rhetoric is too often mined with equivocation.
%%
The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence:
Abolition of private property.
                                -- The Communist Manifesto
%%
The thing in the world I am most of afraid of is fear, and with good
reason, that passion alone in the trouble of it exceeding other
accidents.
                                -- Montaigne
%%
The things in this file don't have to be in bad taste, they just have to
leave a bad taste.
                                -- Dick Munroe
%%
The things which belong to others please us more, and that which is ours
is more pleasing to other.
                                -- Syrus
%%
The thought of 2000 thousand people munching celery at the same time
horrifies me.
                                -- George Bernard Shaw
%%
The three faithful things in life are money, a dog, and an old woman.
%%
The three indispensibles of genius are understanding, feeling, and
perseverance.  The three things that enrich genius, are contentment of
mind, the cherishing of good thoughts, and exercising the memory.
                                -- Southey
%%
The tide comes in and the tide goes out, and what have you got?
%%
The ratio of the time involved in work to time available for work is
usually about 0.6.
%%
The time is right to make new friends.
%%
The time of departure will be delayed by the square of the number of
people involved.  Simply stated, if I wish to leave the city at 5 PM, I
will most likely depart at 5:01.  If I am to meet a friend, the time of
departure becomes 5:04.  If we were to meet another couple, we won't be
on out way before 5:16, and so on.
                                -- Paul D. Plotnick
%%
The tire is only flat on the bottom.
                                -- John L. Shelton
%%
The titles of bills -- like those of Marx Brothers movies -- often have
little to do with the substance of the legislation.  Particularly
deceptive are bills containing title buzz words such as emergency,
reform, service, relief, or special.  Often the emergency is of the
writer's imagination; the reform, a protection of a vested interest; the
service, self-serving; the relief, an additional burden on the taxpayer;
and the special, something that otherwise shouldn't be passed.
                                -- Pierre S. du Pont
%%
The tongue is the ambassador of the heart.
                                -- Lyly
%%
The total amount of evil in any system remains constant.  Hence, any
diminution in one direction -- for instance a reduction in poverty or
unemployment -- is accompanied by an increase in another, e. g.,crime or
air pollution.
                                -- Professor Charles P. Issawi
%%
The toughest decision a purchasing agent faces is when he is about to
buy the machine designed to replace him.
%%
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood
of patriots and tyrants.  It is its natural manure.
                                -- Thomas Jefferson
%%
The trouble with being a breadwinner nowadays is that the Government is
in for such a big slice.
%%
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
                                -- Franklin P. Jones
%%
The trouble with resisting temptation is that you may not get another
chance.
%%
The trouble with some self-made men is that they worship their creator.
%%
The trouble with the average family budget is that at the end of the
money there's too much month left.
%%
The trouble with the average family today is that it's hard to support
it and the government on one income.
%%
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by
parts.
                                -- Edmund Burke
%%
The true function of art is to edit nature and so to make it coherent
and lovely.  The artist is a sort of impassioned proofreader,
blue-penciling the bad spelling of God.
%%
The true, strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally
great things and small.
                                -- Samuel Johnson
%%
The truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labour and the
fact that honor lies in honest toil.
                                -- Grover Cleveland
%%
  The truly brave are soft of heart and eyes,
  And feel for what their duty bids them do.
                                -- Byron
%%
  The truly generous is the truly wise;
  And he loves not others, lives unblest.
                                -- Horace
%%
The truly valiant dare everything but doing an anybody an injury.
                                -- Sir Philiy Sidney
%%
The truth is more important than the facts.
                                -- Frank Lloyd Wright
%%
The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And
vice versa.
%%
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the
enemy.
                                -- Robert Louis Stevenson
%%
  The turnpike road to people's hearts I find
  Lies through their mouths, or I mistake mankind.
                                -- Dr. Wolcot
%%
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things
familiar, and familiar things new.
                                -- Johnson
%%
The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much
easier to give up than bad ones.
                                -- Somerset Maugham
%%
The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.
                                -- Thomas Carlyle
%%
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for out wits to
grow sharper.
                                -- Eden Phillpots
%%
The universe is intractably squiggly.
                                -- Charles Suhor
%%
The universe is laughing behind your back.
%%
The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than
we can imagine.
                                -- J. B. S. Haldane
%%
The universe is one of God's thoughts.
                                -- Friedrich Schiller
%%
The usefulness of any meeting is inversely proportional to the
attendance.
                                -- Lane Kirkland
%%
The user will forget mathematics in proportion to the complexity of the
calculator.
                                -- John L. Shelton
%%
The vain beauty cares most for the conquest which employed the whole
artillery of her charms.
                                -- Edward Garrett
%%
The value of a program is proportional to its output.
%%
The value of money has an objective regulator only when it it linked to
a real commodity, like gold, itself requiring the cost of human labor to
be produced. By comparison, the value of inconvertinle paper money has
no objective regulator, its marginal cost of production being nearly
zero.
                                -- Lewis E. Lehrman
%%
The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and
yet constantly coming on.
                                -- Alexander Pope
%%
The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as
many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body, only
with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
                                -- Jonathan Swift
%%
The vehicle in front of you is traveling slower than you are.
%%
The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of
mercy.
                                -- Bulwer
%%
The venom clamors of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's
tooth.
                                -- Shakespeare
%%
The very technology that makes our living simpler makes society more
complex. The more efficient we get, the more specialized we become and
the more dependent.
                                -- Thomas Griffith
%%
The vile are only vain; the great are proud.
                                -- Byron
%%
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the
dead.
                                -- Lucretius
%%
The way to a man's heart is below his stomach.
                                -- Ron Randall
%%
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
%%
The way to avoid the imputation of impudence is not to be ashamed of
what we do, but never to do what we ought to be ashamed of.
                                -- Tully
%%
  The way to conquer men is by their passions;
  Catch but the ruling foibles of their hearts,
  And all their boasted virtues shrink before you.
                                -- Tolson
%%
The way to fight a woman is with your hat.  Grab it and run!
                                -- John Barrymore
%%
The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market.  It depends chiefly
on two words, industry and frugality; that is, waste neither time nor
money, but make the best use of both.  Without industry and frugality
nothing will do, and with them everything.
                                -- Benjamin Franklin
%%
The weak have to be decent, while the strong can choose to be decent.
                                -- Sepp von Plum
%%
The weather for catching fish is that weather, and no other, in which
fish are caught.
                                -- W. H. Blake
%%
  The weather's turning very funny --
    Hailstones crashing from the sky,
  Snow and sleet ...  It's even money
    Whether we'll survive July!
%%
The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be
broken by the storm wind if it ... did not understand the noble art of
turning to every wind.
                                -- Heinrich Heine
%%
The weed of crime bears bitter fruit.  Crime does not pay. The Shadow
knows!
%%
The weight of your pack increases in direct proportion to the amount of
food you consume from it.  If you run out of food, the pack weight goes
on increasing anyway.
                                -- Milt Barber
%%
The well-tended front lawn is the modern moat that keeps the barbarians
-- other people -- at bay.
%%
The wheel of fortune turns incessantly round, and who can say within
himself, I shall today be uppermost.
                                -- Confucius
%%
The wheels of nature are not made to roll backward; everything presses
on toward Eternity;  from the birth of Time an impetuous current has set
in, which bears all the sons of men toward that interminable ocean.
Meanwhile Heaven is attracting to itself whatever is congenial to its
nature, is enriching itself by the spoils of earth, and collecting
within its capacious bosom, whatever is pure, permanent and divine.
                                -- Robert Hall
%%
The which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends
it, which will waste it; and the same corrupt dispositions which incline
men to the sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful
ways of spending.
                                -- Matthew Henry
%%
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of
our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of
consciousness that exist.
                                -- William James
%%
The whole thing about matrimony is this:  We fall in love with a
personality, but we must live with a character.
                                -- Peter DeVries
%%
The will to win is important, but it isn't worth a damn unless you also
have the will to prepare.
%%
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak
which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that
light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of
mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
                                -- Sir Walter Scott
%%
The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
                                -- Edward Gibbon
%%
The wise prince must foment some emnity so that by suppressing it he
will augment his greatness.
                                -- Italo Bombolini
%%
The wise shepherd never trusts his flock to a smiling wolf.
%%
The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.
                                -- Boileau
%%
The witty man merely says what you would have said if you had thought of
it.
%%
The wonders of the ages assembled for your edification, education, and
enjoyment -- for a price.                -- P. T. Barnum
%%
The word GOOD has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his
grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good
shot, but not necessarily a good man.
%%
The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flowing hidden
in the underground, secretly making the ground greener.
                                -- Thomas Carlyle
%%
The world is all the richer for having the devil in it, so long as we
keep our foot on his neck.
%%
The world is an old woman, that mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold
coin; thereby being often cheated, she will henceforth trust nothing but
the common copper.
                                -- Carlyle
%%
The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was
before you came in.
                                -- James Baldwin
%%
The world is more complicated than most of our theories make it out to
be.
                                -- Edmund C. Berkeley
%%
The world may be divided into people that read, people that write,
people that think, and fox hunters.
                                -- Shenstone
%%
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
                                -- Aristotle
%%
The worst men often give the best advice.
                                -- Bailey
%%
The yoo-hoo you yoo-hoo into the forest is the yoo-hoo you get back.
                                -- Merle Miller
%%
The younger, the better.
%%
The youth of today and of those to come after them would assess the work
of the revolution in accordance with values of their own ... a thousand
years from now, all of them, even Marx, Engels, and Lenin, would
possibly appear rather ridiculous.
                                -- Mao Tse-tung
%%
  The zoo is not an exhibition
    I view with much enjoyment, when
  I notice beasts in a position
    To learn the weaknesses of men.
                                -- John Brunner
%%
Them what has -- gets.                    -- Dexter B. Wakefield
%%
Then condemn what they do not understand.
                                -- Cicero
%%
Then happy low, lie down!  Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
                                -- Shakespeare
%%
There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all
the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room
to spare.
%%
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
                                -- Robert Heinlein
%%
There are 32 points to the compass, meaning that there are 32 directions
in which a spoon can squirt grapefruit; yet, the juice almost invariably
flies straight into the human eye.
                                -- Louis Sattler
%%
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is
striking at its root.
                                -- Henry David Thoreau
%%
There are as many Communists in the freedom movement as there are
Eskimos in Florida.
                                -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
%%
There are but three classes of men:  the retrograde, the stationary and
the progressive.
                                -- Lavater
%%
There are coexisting elements in frustrating phenomena which separate
expected results from achieved results.
%%
There are few people more often in the wrong than those who cannot
endure to be thought so.
%%
There are foure great cyphers in the world;  hee that is lame among
dancers, dumbe among lawyers, dull among scholars, and rude amongst
courtiers.
                                -- Bishop Earle
%%
There are in business three things necessary -- knowledge, temper and
time.
                                -- Feltham
%%
There are lots of good women who, when they get to heaven, will watch to
see if the Lord goes out nights.
                                -- Ed Howe
%%
There are many inside dopes in politics and government.
                                -- Mark B. Cohen
%%
There are many people today who literally do not have a close personal
friend.
%%
There are many shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none
so useful as discretion; it is this, indeed, that gives a value to all
the rest, which sets them to work in their proper times and places, and
turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them.
Without it, learning is pedantry, and wit impertinence; virtue itself
looks like weakness; the best parts only qualify a man to be more
sprightly in errors, and active to his own principle.
                                -- Addison
%%
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until
personal experience has brought it home.
%%
There are more horses' backsides in the military service of the United
States than there are horses.
                                -- Robert J. Clark
%%
There are more old drunkards than old doctors.
%%
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of
in your philosophy.
                                -- Hamlet (Act 1, Scene 5, Line 166)
%%
There are more ways of killing a cat than choking her with cream.
%%
There are no eternal facts as there are no absolute truths.
                                -- Friedrich Nietzsche
%%
There are no strangers here -- only friends we have not met.
%%
There are no winners in life, only survivors.
%%
There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it
themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today
will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.
                                -- Seneca
%%
There are not enough storage registers to solve the problem.
                                -- John L. Shelton
%%
There are scores of thousands of sects who are ready at a moment's
notice to reveal the will of God on every possible subject.
%%
There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom
are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
                                -- Richter
%%
There are things on heaven and earth, Horatio, Man was not meant to
know.
                                -- Hamlet
%%
There are those that are born to be on top and those that are born to be
on bottom.  Like officers and soldiers.
                                -- Sergeant Traub
%%
There are three faithful friends -- old Bert, old Ham, and Ronald
Reagan.
                                -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac
%%
There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest
friends.
%%
There are three parts in truth:  first, the inquiry, which is the wooing
of it; secondly, the knowledge of it, which is the presence of it; and
thirdly, the belief, which is the enjoyment of it.
                                -- Bacon
%%
There are three sides to every story -- yours, mine, and all that lie
between.
                                -- Jody Kern
%%
There are three things I always forget.  Names, faces -- the third I
can't remember.
                                -- Italo Svevo
%%
There are three things I have always loved and never understood - art,
music, and women.
%%
There are three ways to get something done:  do it yourself, hire
someone, or forbid your kids to do it.
                                -- Monta Crane
%%
There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness; this, the
awkwardness of a booby, which a few steps into the world will convert
into the pertness of a cox comb; that, a consciousness, which the most
delicate feelings produce, and the most extensive knowledge cannot
always remove.
                                -- Mackenzie
%%
There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and
those who did but never thought.
%%
There are two kinds of fools.  One says, "This is old, therefore it is
superior."  The other says, "This is new, therefore it is better."
%%
There are two sides to every argument, unless a person is personally
involved, in which case there is only one.
%%
There are two ways we can meet a difficulty:  either we can alter the
difficulty or we can alter ourselves to meet it.
%%
There are very few original thinkers in the world;  the greatest part of
those who are called philosophers have adopted the opinions of some who
went before them.
                                -- Dugald Stewert
%%
There comes a time when one must stop suggesting and evaluating new
solutions, and get on with the job of analyzing and implementing one
pretty good solution.
                                -- Robert Machol
%%
There exist limitless opportunities in every industry.  Where there is
an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
                                -- Charles F. Kettering
%%
There has been a long history of optimizing the wrong things, using
elaborate mechanisms to produce beautiful code in cases that hardly ever
arise in practice, while doing nothing about frequently occurring
situations.
                                -- Donald Knuth
%%
There is a four-word formula for success that applies equally well to
organizations or individuals -- make yourself more useful.
%%
There is a kind of greatness which does not depend upon fortune; it is a
certain manner that distinguishes us, and which seems to destine us for
great things; it is the value we insensibly set upon ourselves; it is by
this quality, that we gain the deference of other men, and it is this
which commonly raises us more above them, than birth, rank, or even
merit itself.
                                -- La Rochefoucauld
%%
There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
                                -- Burke
%%
There is a place for a decisive gamble where you know your enemy and can
calculate the risks at least roughly; but to move at all against an
unknown enemy is boldness in itself.
                                -- Bel Riose
%%
  There is a pleasure in being mad,
  Which none but madmen know.
                                -- Dryden
%%
There is a solution to every problem; the only difficulty is finding it.
%%
There is a statistical correlation between the number of initials in an
Englishman's name and his social class (the upper class having
significantly more than three names, while members of the lower class
average 2.6).
%%
There is a tendency for the person in the most powerful position in an
organization to spend all his time serving on committees and signing
letters.
%%
  There is a tide in the affairs of men,
  Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
  Omitted, all the voyage of their life
  Is bound in shallows and in miseries:
  On such a full sea are we now afloat,
  And we must take the current when it serves,
  Or lose our ventures.
                                -- Shakespeare
%%
There is a vast difference between putting your nose in other people's
business and putting your heart in other people's problems.
%%
There is a wide difference between general acquaintance and
companionship.  You may salute a man and exchange compliments with him
daily, yet know nothing of his character, his inmost tastes and
feelings.
                                -- William Matthews
%%
There is always someone worse off than yourself.
%%
There is an inverse relationship between the uniqueness of an
observation and the number of investigators who report it
simultaneously.
                                -- A. B. Pardee
%%
There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program:
Your tax dollar will go farther.
%%
There is much pleasure to be gained in useless knowledge.
                                -- Bertrand Russell
%%
There is no being eloquent for atheism.  In that exhausted receiver, the
mind cannot use its wings -- the clearest proof that it is out of its
element.
                                -- Hare
%%
There is no conclusive evidence of life after death. But there is no
evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know. So why fret
about it?
                                -- Lazarus Long
%%
There is no conflict between liberty and safety.  We will have both or
neither.
                                -- Ramsey Clark
%%
  There is no courage, but in innocence,
  No constancy, but in an honest cause.
                                -- Southern
%%
There is no difference between man and man, as there is between man and
beast or between man and God, that makes one by nature the ruler of
another.  This does not mean that there are not wide differences among
men, or that it is not often to the advantage of some to be ruled by
others.
                                -- Harry V. Jaffa
%%
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
                                -- Elbert Hubbard
%%
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.
%%
There is no free lunch.
                                -- Barry Commoner
%%
There is no freedom without the power to defend it.
%%
There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
                                -- Seneca
%%
There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness.
                                -- Seneca
%%
There is no hope -- the future will but turn the old sand in the falling
glass of time.
                                -- R. H. Stoddard
%%
There is no market for gloom.  You cannot sell it.  What the world
wants, needs, and will buy is cheer.
%%
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is
habitual but indecision.
                                -- William James
%%
There is no pardon FOR Murphy's Law.
%%
There is no pardon FROM Murphy's Law.
%%
There is no possible line of conduct which has not at some time and
place been condemned, and which at some other time and place been
enjoined as a duty.
                                -- William Lecky
%%
There is no proposition, no matter how foolish, for which a dozen Nobel
signatures cannot be collected.  Furthermore, any such petition is
guaranteed page-one treatment in The New York Times.
                                -- Daniel S. Greenberg
%%
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
                                -- James Thurber
%%
There is no substitute for thorough going, ardent, and sincere
earnestness.
                                -- Dickens
%%
There is no such thing as "social gambling." Either you are there to cut
the other bloke's heart out and eat it -- or you're a sucker. If you
don't like this choice -- don't gamble.             -- Lazarus Long
%%
There is no such thing as a "dirty capitalist", only a capitalist.
                                -- Bill Gray
%%
There is no such thing as a short beer.  (As in, "I'm going to stop off
at Joe's for a short beer before I meet you.")
                                -- Virginia W. Smith
%%
There is no such thing as an absolute truth -- that is absolutely true.
                                -- Solomon Short
%%
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service,
and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of
mortals.
                                -- Seneca
%%
There is not a fiercer hell than failure in a great object.
                                -- Keats
%%
There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself
and his family.  But he can't make a living for them AND the government,
too, the way his government is living.  What the government has got to
do is live as cheap as the people.
                                -- Will Rogers
%%
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory  of some
temptation we resisted.
                                -- James Branch Cabell
%%
There is not in nature a thing that makes a man so deform'd, so beastly,
as doth intemperate anger.
                                -- Webster's Duchess of Malp.
%%
There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole catalogue of human
suffering, as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we
most tenderly love is estranged from us.
                                -- Bulwer
%%
There is nothing as cheap and weak in debate as assertion that is not
backed by facts.
%%
There is nothing like a good painstaking survey full of decimal points
and guarded generalizations to put a glaze like a Sung vase on your
eyeball.
                                -- S. J. Perelman
%%
There is nothing more destructive of physical and mental health than the
isolation of you from me, of us from them.
%%
There is nothing more difficult to carry out and more doubtful of
success than to initiate a new order of things.  For the reformer has
enemies in all who prosper by the old order.
                                -- Italo Bombolini
%%
There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
                                -- Victor Hugo
%%
There is nothing permanent except change.
                                -- Heraclitus
%%
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been
said by some philosopher.
                                -- Oliver Goldsmith
%%
There is nothing so simple that it cannot be made difficult.
                                -- Merle P. Martin
%%
There is nothing so unbecoming on the beach as a wet kilt.
                                -- Bill Gray
%%
There is one are of which man should be master -- the art of reflection.
                                -- Coleridge
%%
There is one around here somewhere.
                                -- John Croll
%%
There is one inflexible rule of television.  No show is too bad to be
run during the summer.
%%
There is only one thing worse than dreaming you are at a conference and
waking up to find that you are at a conference: and that is the
conference where you can't fall asleep.
%%
There is only one way to console a widow. But remember the risk!
%%
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of
us, that is behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us.
                                -- Robert Louis Stevenson
%%
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far,
something rarer than ability.  It is the ability to recognize ability.
                                -- Elbert Hubbard
%%
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks
himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the
wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
                                -- Colton
%%
There must be an ideal world, a sort of mathematician's paradise where
everything happens as it does in textbooks.
                                -- Bertrand Russell
%%
There must be underinvestment in bulls ... just look at the rate of
return.
                                -- Edgar R. Fiedler
%%
There never was a devil who didn't advise people to keep out of Hell.
%%
There never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not
resort to divine authority.
%%
  There once was a priest of Gibraltar
  Who write dirty jokes in his psalter
    An inhibited nun
    Who had read every one
  Made a vow to be laid on his altar.
%%
There shall be no such thing as a lost ball.  The missing ball is on or
near the course somewhere and eventually will be found and pocketed by
someone else.  It thus becomes a stolen ball, and the player should not
compound the felony by charging himself with a penalty stroke.
                                -- Donald A. Metz
%%
There sometimes wants only a stroke of fortune to discover numberless
latent good or bad qualities, which would otherwise have been eternally
concealed: as words written with a certain liquor appear only when
applied to the fire.
                                -- Greville
%%
  There was a general whisper, toss, and wriggle,
  But etiquette forbade them all to giggle.
                                -- Byron
%%
  There was a sick man of Tobago
  Liv'd long on rice-gruel and sago;
    But at last, to his bliss,
    The physician said this --
  "To a roast leg of mutton you may go."
%%
  There was a young lady named Myrtle
  Who had an affair with a turtle.
    She birthed crabs, so they say,
    In a year and a day,
  Which proves that the turtle was fertile.
%%
  There was a young monk from Siberia
  Whose morals were very inferior.
    He did to a nun
    What he shouldn't have done
  And now she's a Mother Superior.
%%
  There was a young monk of Kilkyre,
  Was smitten with carnal desire.
    The immediate cause
    Was the abbess' drawers,
  Which were hung up to dry by the fire.
%%
  There was a young peasant named Gorse
  Who fell madly in love with his horse.
    Said his wife, "You rapscallion,
    That horse is a stallion --
  This constitutes grounds for divorce."
%%
There was no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society
than to debauch the currency ... Inflation engages all the hidden forces
of economic law on the side of destruction. And it does it in a manner
which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.
                                -- John Maynard Keynes
%%
There will be big changes for you but you will be happy.
%%
There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will.
                                -- Shakespeare
%%
There's a mighty big difference between good, sound reasons and reasons
that sound good.
                                -- Burton Hillis
%%
There's a small choice in rotten apples.
                                -- Shakespeare
%%
There's at least one fool in every married couple.
%%
There's never time to do it right but always time to do it over.
                                -- John K. Meskimen
%%
There's no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn't matter who
gets the credit.
%%
There's no merit in discipline under ideal circumstances.  I'll have it
in the face of death, or it's useless.
                                -- Hobar Mallow
%%
There's no more mercy in him than there is milk in a male tiger.
                                -- Shakespeare
%%
There's no such thing as a dangerous weapon, only dangerous men.
%%
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government
working for you.
                                -- Will Rodgers
%%
There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself.
                                -- Shakespeare
%%
There's not so much danger in a known foe and a suspected friend.
                                -- Nabb
%%
There's nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
                                -- Shakespeare
%%
There's nothing wrong with using four-letter words in explaining the
facts of life to children -- words like love, kiss, help, care,
give, ...
                                -- Sam Levenson
%%
There's one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that
is not learning from experience.
%%
There's so much to say but your eyes keep interrupting me.
%%
There's something else I dislike just as much as creeping socialism, and
that's galloping reaction.
                                -- Adlai Stevenson
%%
There's something wrong if you're always right.
                                -- Arnold Glasow
%%
There's such a thing as too much point on a pencil.
                                -- Avery
%%
There's times peoples just be tired of peoples.
%%
Thermal paper will run out before the calculation is complete.
                                -- John L. Shelton
%%
These are the effects of doting age: vain doubts, and idle cares, and
over caution.
                                -- John Dryden
%%
They are able because they think they are able.
                                -- Virgil
%%
They begin with making falsehood appear like truth, and end with making
truth itself appear like falsehood.
                                -- Shensione
%%
They pass best over the world who trip over it quickly; for it is but a
bog -- if we stop we sink.
                                -- Queen Elizabeth
%%
They say an elephant never forgets, but what's he got to remember?
%%
They say you don't really know a person until you've camped out with
him. Car-pooling serves the same purpose.
%%
They that govern most make the least noise.  You see, when they row in a
barge, they do that drudgery work, slash and puff, and sweat, but he
that governs sits quietly at the stern, and is scarce seen to stir.
                                -- Selden
%%
They that know no evil will suspect none.
                                -- Ben Johnson
%%
They who provide much wealth for their children, but neglect to improve
them in virtue, do like those who feed their horses high, but never
train them to the manage.
                                -- Socrates
%%
Things are not always as they seem.
                                -- Mandrake the Magician
%%
Things do change. The only question is that since things are
deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly
enough?
                                -- Isaac Asimov
%%
Things move so fast today that we sometimes get the feeling our
solutions may be obsolete before we can get them worked out.
%%
Things sweet to the taste, prove in digestion sour.
                                -- Shakespeare
%%
Think!
                                -- IBM slogan
%%
Things will get worse before they get better.
                                -- John Ehrman
%%
Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought.
                                -- Henri Bergson
%%
Think of what others ought to be like, then start being like that
yourself.
%%
  Think that day lost whose low descending sun
  Views from thy hand no noble action done.
                                -- Jacob Bobart
%%
Think that you are exceptional and entitled to special privileges.
%%
Think that you can control your autonomic nervous system by sheer
willpower.
%%
Think twice before saying nothing.
%%
Think twice before speaking. But don't say "think think click click".
%%
Think you are indispensable to your job, your community, your friends.
%%
Think you are overburdened with work and that people tend to take
advantage of you.
%%
Thirty seconds on the evening news is worth a front page headline in
every newspaper in the world.
                                -- Edwin Guthman
%%
This above all: to thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the
night the day thou cans't not then be false to any man.
                                -- Shakespeare
%%
  This famine has a sharp and meagre face;
  'Tis death in an undress of skin and bone,
  Where age and youth, their landmark ta'en away,
  Look all one common sorrow.
                                -- Dryden
%%
This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; and, to do that well,
craves a kind of wit.
                                -- Shakespeare
%%
This file will self-destruct in five minutes.
%%
This is another fine myth you've gotten me into!!!
                                -- Lor L. and Har D.
%%
This is my death ... and it will profit me to understand it.
                                -- Anne Sexton
%%
This is nothing but a consistently pathological display of inconsistent
consistencies.
%%
This is the LAST time I take travel suggestions from Ray Bradbury!
%%
This is the curse of every evil deed That, propagating still, it brings
forth evil.
                                -- Southey
%%
This job is marginally better than daytime TV.
                                -- Jim Pastore
%%
This lane ends in 500 feet.
%%
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with
great force.
                                -- Dorothy Parker
%%
This rental car is so small, I can't see the gas gauge...
%%
This sad little lizard told me that he was a brontosaurus on his
mother's side. I did not laugh; people who boast of ancestry often have
little else to sustain them. Humoring them costs nothing and adds to
happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply.
                                -- Lazarus Long
%%
This, too shall pass.
%%
Those gifts are ever the most acceptable which the giver has made
precious.
                                -- Ovid
%%
Those men who are commended by every body, must be very extraordinary
men; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men.
                                -- Greville
%%
Those of you who think you know everything are annoying those of us who
do.
%%
Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.
                                -- La Rochefoucauld
%%
Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculed in the
country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.
                                -- Shakespeare
%%
Those who are prospering do not argue about taxes.
%%
Those who bestow too much application of trifling things, become
generally incapable of great ones.
                                -- La Rochefoucauld
%%
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from
themselves.
                                -- Sir James Barrie
%%
Those who can -- do.  Those who cannot -- teach.  Those who cannot teach
become deans.
                                -- Thomas L. Martin
%%
Those who cannot miss an opportunity of saying a good thing are not to
be trusted with the management of any great question.
                                -- William Hazlitt
%%
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
%%
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
                                -- Abraham Lincoln
%%
Those who don't study the past will repeat its errors.  Those who do
will find other ways to err!
                                -- Charles Wolf, Jr.
%%
Those who expect the biggest tips provide the worst service.
                                -- Rozanne Weissman
%%
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men,
undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
                                -- Thomas Paine
%%
Those who express random thoughts to legislative committees are often
surprised and appalled to find themselves the instigators of law.
                                -- Mark B. Cohen
%%
Those who have the shortest distance to travel to a meeting will
invariably arrive the latest.
%%
  Those who in quarrels interpose,
  Must often wipe a bloody nose.
                                -- Gay
%%
Those who invented the law of supply and demand have no right to
complain when this law works against their interest.
                                -- Anwar Sadat
%%
Those who order sleeping drafts won't take them.
                                -- Robert A. Heinlein
%%
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men
who want rain without thunder and lightening.
                                -- Frederick Douglass
%%
Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to
them, are for the greater part ignorant of both the character they leave
and of the character they assume.
                                -- Edmund Burke
%%
Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
                                -- John Lindsay
%%
Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.
                                -- Wilson Mizner
%%
Those whose approval you seek the most give you the least.
                                -- Rozanne Weissman
%%
Those with the best advice offer no advice.
%%
Thou shalt remember the Eleventh Commandment and keep it Wholly.
%%
Thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more or a hair less in his
beard than thou hast.  Thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts,
having no other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes; what eye but
such an eye, would spy out such a quarrel?  Thy head is full of
quarrels, as an egg is full of meat.
                                -- Shakespeare
%%
Though I have said above that all men by nature are equal, I cannot be
supposed to understand all sorts of equality.  Age or virtue may give
man a just precedency.  Excellency of parts and merit may place others
above the common level ... And yet all this consists with the equality
which all men are in, in respect of jurisdiction or dominion, one over
another.
                                -- John Locke
%%
Though many hands make light work, too many cooks spoil the broth.
%%
Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men
and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.
                                -- Dr. I. Watts
%%
Though thou shouldst bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle,
yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
                                -- Proverbs XXVII, 22
%%
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is
nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
                                -- William Wordsworth
%%
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
                                -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
%%
Thought is the seed of action.
                                -- Emerson
%%
Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.
                                -- Shakespeare
%%
Threats to security will be found.
                                -- Robert N. Kharasch
%%
  Three Laws of Politics:
  1.  Get elected.
  2.  Get reelected.
  3.  Don't get mad, get even.
                                -- Everett Dirksen
%%
Three things only do slaves require, food, work, and their gods, and of
the three their gods must never be touched -- else they grow restless.
                                -- Precepts for Ruling
%%
Three women and a goose make a market.
%%
Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is
lost; let a man who knows the double path of gain and loss thus place
himself that knowledge may grow.
                                -- Buddha
%%
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightening that does
the work.
                                -- Mark Twain
%%
Tilting at windmills hurts you more than the windmills.
%%
Time is a fiction, perpetrated by the manufacturers of space.
%%
Time is a versatile performer.  It flies, marches on, heals all wounds,
runs out and will tell.
                                -- Franklin P. Jones
%%
Time is the chrysalis of eternity.
                                -- Richter
%%
Time is the old Justice, that examines all offenders.
                                -- Shakespeare
%%
  Time paradoxes are disgusting!
    Never mind what care you take --
  You always find you got there just in
    Time to cause your grandad's wake.
%%
Time's gradual touch has moulder'd into beauty many a tower which when
it frown'd with all its battlements, was only terrible.
                                -- Mason
%%
Timely advis'd, the coming evil shun!
                                -- Prior
%%
To a Europe exhausted by nearly two centuries of religious wars, [Isaac]
Newton's works were first and foremost a message about God;  that He did
not behave in a capricious or arbitrary fashion, in response to either
His will or human prayer, but in accordance with absolute, unwavering,
and humanly discoverable laws of nature which governed him and all his
works.  He had become the infinitely perfect Clock-Maker, his works
fathomable by the human mind.
                                -- Forrest MacDonald
%%
To abuse wine is to abuse life itself.
%%
To achieve our ultimate goals is not happiness; it is to be able to
solve our problems along the way.
%%
To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers
light.
                                -- Scott
%%
To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or
inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill
conduct, either by the censures of the one, or the admonitions of the
other.
                                -- Diogenes
%%
To be "matter of fact" about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and
dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
                                -- Lazarus Long
%%
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being
educated.
                                -- Edith Hamilton
%%
To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.
                                -- Alexander Pope
%%
To be free of bondage or restraint, to live under a government based on
the consent of the citizens, these are basic among all freedoms ... and
this is the reason why a democracy is from every possible humane point
of view the best form of government ... What so many human beings in the
modern world have failed to understand is that freedom is the greatest
of all trusts.
                                -- Ashley Montagu
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To be thrown on one's own resources is to be cast in the very lap of
fortune; for our faculties undergo a development, and display an energy,
of which they were previously unsusceptible.
                                -- Benjamin Franklin
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To beat the bureaucracy, make your problem their problem.
                                -- Marshall L. Smith
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To behave with dignity is nothing less than to allow others freely to be
themselves.
                                -- Sol Chaneles
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To believe in God is impossible -- not to believe in him is absurd.
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To believe is to be strong.  Doubt cramps energy.  Belief is power.
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To believe with certainty we must begin to doubt.
                                -- Stanislaus
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To build something that endures, it is of the greatest importance to
have a long tenure in office -- to rule for many years.  You can achieve
a quick success in a year or two, but nearly all the great tycoons have
continued their building much longer.
                                -- Antony Jay
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To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did.  I ought to know
because I've done it a thousand times.
                                -- Mark Twain
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To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know mot merely what he
does but also what he purposely leaves undone.  There is a limit to the
work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a
wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted;
and he is still wiser who, among the things that he can do well, chooses
and resolutely follows the best.
                                -- William Gladstone
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To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my
nature.  I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
                                -- Dickens
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To criticize the incompetent is easy; it is more difficult to criticize
the competent.
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To die is landing on some distant shore.
                                -- John Dryden
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  To die -- to sleep --
  No more -- and, by a sleep, to say we end
  The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks,
  That flesh is heir to -- 'Tis a consummation
  Devoutly to be wish'd.
                                -- Shakespeare
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To divest one's self of some prejudices, would be like taking off the
skin to feel the better.
                                -- Greville
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  To do is to be: -- Nietzsche
  To be is to do: -- Sartre
  Do be do be do: -- Sinatra
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To do two things at once is to do neither.
                                -- Publius Syrus
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To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antidote
those miseries that must fall on us.
                                -- Massinger
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense, is like attempting
to hew blocks with a razor.
                                -- Alexander Pope
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
                                -- Virginia Woolf
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To err is human -- to forgive is not company policy.
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To err is human, but it takes a computer to really foul things up.
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To err may become inhuman.
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To estimate the time it takes to do a task:  estimate the time you think
it should take, multiply by two, and change the unit of measure to the
next higher unit.  Thus we allocate two days for a one-hour task.
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To every Ph.D. there is an equal and opposite Ph.D, which explains why
it is so easy to find expert witnesses who contradict each other.
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on
creating oneself endlessly.
                                -- Henri Bergson
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  To follow foolish precedents, and wink
  With both our eyes is easier than to think.
                                -- Cowper
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To function efficiently, any group of people or employees must have
faith in their leader.
                                -- Capt. Bligh (HMRN, Ret)
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To gain one's way is no escape from the responsibility for an inferior
solution.
                                -- Winston Churchill
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To get action out of management, it is necessary to create the illusion
of a crisis in the hope it will be acted on.
                                -- Gene Franklin
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To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three
men, two of them absent.
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  To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
  To throw a perfume on the violet,
  To smoothe the ice, or add another hue
  To the rainbow, or, with taper-light,
  To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
  Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
                                -- Shakespeare
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To give happiness is to deserve happiness.
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To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought ot
measured with money -- sincerity and integrity.   -- Donald Adams
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To go to law, is for two persons to kindle a fire at their own cost, to
warm others, and singe themselves to cinders; and because they cannot
agree, to what is truth and equity, they will both agree to unplume
themselves, that others may be decorated with their feathers.
                                -- Feltham
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To have a sense of humor is to be a tragic figure.
                                -- Marion J. Levy, Jr.
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To her love was like the air of heaven -- invisible, intangible; it yet
encircled her soul, and she knew it; for in it was her life.
                                -- Miss M'Intosh
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To him nothing is impossible, who is always dreaming of his past
possibilities.
                                -- Carlyle
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To justify his theft, one trade union official, caught with his hand in
the till, explained that he was using the money to fight Communism.
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To keep your friends treat them kindly; to kill them, treat them often.
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To kill an enterprise, complain that nothing is ever published that
interests you but never offer to write an article, make a suggestion, or
find a writer.
                                -- Jean-Charles Terrassier
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To kill an enterprise, criticize the work of the organizers and members.
                                -- Jean-Charles Terrassier
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To kill an enterprise, don't do what has to be done yourself, but when
the members roll up their sleeves and do their very best, complain that
the group is run by a bunch of ego-trippers.     -- Jean-Charles
Terrassier
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To kill an enterprise, don't go to meetings.
                                -- Jean-Charles Terrassier
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To kill an enterprise, get mad if you are not a member of the committee,
but if you are, make no suggestions.
                                -- Jean-Charles Terrassier
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To kill an enterprise, if you go to the meetings, arrive late.
                                -- Jean-Charles Terrassier
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To kill an enterprise, never think of introducing new members.
                                -- Jean-Charles Terrassier
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To kill an enterprise, pay your dues as late as possible.
                                -- Jean-Charles Terrassier
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To kill an enterprise, say you have no opinion on the subject if the
chair asks for it.  After the meeting, say you have learned nothing, or
tell everyone what should have happened.
                                -- Jean-Charles Terrassier
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To kill time, a committee meeting is the perfect weapon.
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To know how to refuse is as important as to know how to consent.
                                -- Baltasar Gracian
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To know thy self is the ultimate form of aggression.
                                -- Marion J. Levy, Jr.
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To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools.
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To live in a place where you don't belong is to live in hell.
                                -- Italo Bombolini
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To live long, it is necessary to live slowly.
                                -- Cicero
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To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses.
                                -- Syrus
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To love and to be wise is scarcely granted to the highest.
                                -- Laberius
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To make yourself miserable, cultivate a consistently pessimistic
outlook.
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To make yourself miserable, don't forget to feel sorry for yourself.
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To make yourself miserable, forget the feelings and rights of other
people.
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To make yourself miserable, forget the good things in life and
concentrate on the bad.
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To make yourself miserable, never overlook a slight or forget a grudge.
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To make yourself miserable, put an excessive value on money.
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To make yourself miserable, think that you are exceptional and entitled
to special privileges.
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To make yourself miserable, think that you are indispensible to your
job, your company, and your friends.
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To make yourself miserable, think that you are overburdened with work
and that people tend to take advantage of you.
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To make yourself miserable, think that you can control your nervous
system by sheer will power.
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To many men well-fitting doors are not set on their tongues.
                                -- Theognis
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  To mortal men great loads alotted be;
  But of all packs no pack like poverty.
                                -- Herrick
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To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship which
illumine only the track it has passed.
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To profit from good advice requires as much wisdom as to give it.
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To read without reflecting, is like eating without digesting.
                                -- Bacon
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To refuse praise is to seek praise twice.
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To save a single life is better than to build a seven story pagoda.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one
of the Fathers observes to be, not a virtue, but the groundwork of a
virtue.
                                -- Johnson
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To some lawyers all facts are created equal.
                                -- Justice Felix Frankfurter
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To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn
old falsehoods.
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To study an object best, understand it thoroughly before you start.
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To succeed planning alone is insufficient.  One must improvise as well.
                                -- Salvor Hardin
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To teach men how to live without certainty, and yet without being
paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing philosophy can still
do.
                                -- Bertrand Russell
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To the Gay Laugh of my Mother at the Gate of the Grave.
                                -- Sean O'Casey
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To the atheist, death is the end; to the believer, the beginning; to the
agnostic, the sound of silence.
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To the generous mind, the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when 'tis
not in our power to repay it.
                                -- Dr. Thomas Franklin
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To the memory of the man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the
hearts of his country.
                                -- General Henry Lee
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To the wage earner, "free enterprise" is the way his boss treats him and
those around him.
                                -- Malcolm Forbes
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To those who doubt the importance of careful mate selection, remember
how Adam wrecked a promising career.
                                -- Charles Merrill Smith
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your
facts is another.
                                -- John Burroughs
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To understand political power aright ... we must consider what state all
men are naturally in, and that is a state of perfect freedom to order
their actions ... within the bonds of the law of nature, without asking
leave, or depending upon the will of any other man.
                                -- John Locke
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To what base uses may we return!  Why may not imagination trace the
noble dust of Alexander, till it find it stopping a bunghole?  As thus:
Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth to dust; the
dust is earth: of earth we make loam.  And why of that loam, whereto he
was converted, might they not stop a beer barrel?
                                -- Shakespeare
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To write a good love-letter you ought to begin without knowing what you
mean to say, and end without knowing what you have written.
                                -- Rousseau
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To write well is at once to think well, to feel rightly, and to render
properly!  It is to have, at the same time, mind, soul, taste.
                                -- Buffon
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Today most physicians specialize.  After getting his bill, I've decided
my doctor's speciality is banking.
                                -- Mickey Porter
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Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.
                                -- Lavater
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Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available
briefcases.
                                -- Governor Jerry Brown
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Towering genius disdains the beaten path.  It seeks regions hitherto
unexplored.
                                -- Abraham Lincoln
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Train a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not
depart from it.
                                -- Proverbs XXII, 6.
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  Treason doth never prosper.  What's the reason?
  Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason.
                                -- Sir John Harrington
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Treat the other man's faith gently: it is all he has to believe with.
                                -- Henry S. Haskins
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Trespassers will be violated!
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Trinity is the word for a committed god.
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Trivial matters are handled promptly; important matters are never
solved.
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Trouble strikes in series of threes, but when working around the house
the next job after a series of threes is not the fourth job -- it's the
start of a brand new series of threes.
                                -- Avery
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True dignity is never gained by place, and never won when honors are
withdrawn.
                                -- Massinger
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True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, not all that
could be.
                                -- La Rochefoucauld
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True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known
until it be lost.
                                -- Charles Caleb Colton
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True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain,
hazardous, and conflicting information.
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True happiness will be found only in true love.
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True hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods,
and meaner creatures kings.
                                -- Shakespeare
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Trust me!
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  Trust no future howe'er pleasant!
  Let the dead past bury its dead!
  Act -- act in the living present!
  Heart within and God o'erhead!
                                -- Longfellow
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Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to
open the way to the next better one.
                                -- Konrad Lorenz
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Truth is God's daughter.
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Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of
this world, all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
                                -- Byron
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Truth is a statue, and you are all just a bunch of pigeons.
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Truth needs no flowers of speech.
                                -- Alexander Pope
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Try to be like the turtle -- at ease in your own shell.
                                -- Bill Copeland
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Try to divide your time evenly to keep others happy.
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Try to find out who's doing the work, not who's writing about it,
controlling it, or summarizing it.
                                -- Amrom Katz
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Try to find the real tense of the report you are reading:  Was it done,
is it being done, or is something to be done?  Reports are now written
in four tenses:  past tense, present tense, future tense, and pretense.
Watch for novel uses of CONGRAM (CONtractor GRAMmer), defined by the
imperfect past, the insufficient present, and the absolutely perfect
future.
                                -- Amrom Katz
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Try to value useful qualities in one who loves you.
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Two sure ways to tell a sexy male; the first is, he has a bad memory. I
forget the second.
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Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe --
the starry heavens above me, and the moral law within me.
                                -- Immanuel Kant
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Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
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Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.  Except in Boston.
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Typesetters always correct intentional errors, but fail to correct
unintentional errors.                  --  Alan Otten
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UNMATCHED: almost as good as the competition
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UNOBTRUSIVE MEASURES: Experimental techniques of unclear origin having
something to do with work tiles. Observing madam in her bath without
bringing forth screams.
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UNPRECEDENTED PERFORMANCE: nothing we had before ever worked this way
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Uhland's poetry is like the famous war horse, Bayard; it possesses all
possible virtues and only one fault: it is dead.
                                -- Heinrich Heine
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Umpire's dessert -- rhubarb pie           -- Raymond D. Love
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Unbidden guests are often welcomest when they are gone.
                                -- Shakespeare
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Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some
ordinance under which you can be booked.
                                -- Robert D. Specht
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Under any system a few sharpies will beat the rest of us.
                                -- Al Goodfather
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Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
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Under current practices, both expenditures and revenues rise to meet
each other, no matter which one may be in excess.
                                -- Joe Bolton
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