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"The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the
Christian Religion"
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Don't debate with fools.
CHANAKYA PANDIT (350 -275 B.C)
He is a Governor that governs his Passions, and he is servant that serves
them.
BEN FRANKLIN
A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
BEN FRANKLIN
Is there anything men take more pains about than to make themselves unhappy?
BEN FRANKLIN
When your intelligence has passed out of the dense forest of delusion, you
shall become indifferent to all that has been heard and all that is to be
heard.
BHAGAVAD GITA
Work as if you were to live 100 years, pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
BEN FRANKLIN
As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly
accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.
BHAGAVAD GITA
Chapter 2 Txt 22
The honey is sweet, but the Bee has a sting.
BEN FRANKLIN
Great Talkers should be cropp'd, for they have no need of Ears.
BEN FRANKLIN
Many dishes, many diseases.
BEN FRANKLIN
Anger is never without a Reason, but seldom with a good one.
BEN FRANKLIN
Many have quarrel'd about Religion, that never practiced it.
BEN FRANKLIN
From the crow one should learn five things:
sex in secrecy,
secret action,
catch in time,
unruffled behavior and
distrust of everyone.
CHANAKYA PANDIT (350-275 B.C)
You may delay, but Time will not.
BEN FRANKLIN
Approve not of him who commends all you say.
BEN FRANKLIN
The dog has six qualities:
desire for much,
satisfaction with a little,
deep slumber,
quick awakening,
devotion to the master
and bravery.
CHANAKYA PANDIT (350-275 B.C)
He that won't be counsell'd, can't be help'd.
BEN FRANKLIN
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
BEN FRANKLIN
The ruler should be wise, friendly, flawless in his dealings, keep distance,
be sacrificing and equally disposed towards pain and pleasure.
CHANAKYA PANDIT (350-275 B.C)
Wise men learn by others' harms; fools by their own.
BEN FRANKLIN
He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill-breeding in others.
BEN FRANKLIN
One should not be too staightforward. Go and see the forest. The straight
trees are cut down, the crooked ones are left standing.
CHANAKYA PANDIT (350-275 B.C)
He that lieth down the dogs shall rise up with fleas.
BEN FRANKLIN
If passion drives, let reason hold the reins.
BEN FRANKLIN
The union of a large number of good people can defeat the enemy. The cloud
which rains torrentially is withstood by clusters of grass.
CHANAKYA PANDIT (350-275 B.C)
A true friend is the best possession.
BEN FRANKLIN
Great spenders are bad lenders.
BEN FRANKLIN
The same man cannot be both friend and flatterer.
BEN FRANKLIN
A young city girl was vacationing in the country and became friendly with a
farmer boy. One evening as they were strolling across a pasture they saw a
cow and calf rubbing noses in the accepted bovine fashion.
"Ah," said the farmer boy, "that sight makes me want to do the same."
"Well, go ahead," said the girl, "it's your cow."
Those who are fear'd are hated.
BEN FRANKLIN
The eye of a master will do more work than his hand.
BEN FRANKLIN
Policeman (producing notebook): "Name please."
Motorist: "Aloysius-Alastair-Cyprian-"
Policeman (putting book away): "Well, don't let me catch you again."
He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.
BEN FRANKLIN
Seek Virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.
BEN FRANKLIN
Death takes no Bribes.
BEN FRANKLIN
Clean your finger before you point at my spots.
BEN FRANKLIN
If you have Time, don't wait for Time.
BEN FRANKLIN
As pride increases, fortune declines.
BEN FRANKLIN
The heart of the fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man
is in his heart.
BEN FRANKLIN
What you would seem to be, be really.
BEN FRANKLIN
Half wits talk much but say little.
BEN FRANKLIN
Declaiming against Pride is not always a sign of humility.
BEN FRANKLIN
Experience keeps a dear school, yet Fools will learn in no other.
BEN FRANKLIN
How many observe Christ's Birthday; How few his Precepts!
O! 'tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments.
BEN FRANKLIN
They who have nothing to trouble them will be troubled at nothing.
BEN FRANKLIN
Doing an Injury puts you below your Enemy; Revenging one makes you but even
with him; Forgiving it sets you above him.
BEN FRANKLIN
If you would have Guests merry with cheer, be so yourself, or so at least
appear.
BEN FRANKLIN
The family of Fools is ancient.
BEN FRANKLIN
The King's cheese is half wasted in parings; but no matter, 'tis made of
the People's milk.
BEN FRANKLIN
He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows, nor
judge all he sees.
BEN FRANKLIN
An honest man will receive neither money nor praise that is not his due.
BEN FRANKLIN
Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompense the pangs of vice.
BEN FRANKLIN
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
BEN FRANKLIN
A little well-gotten will do us more good, than lordships and sceptres
by Rapine and Blood.
BEN FRANKLIN
He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his
business at night.
BEN FRANKLIN
Many a long dispute among Divines may be thus abridged, It is so: It is not
so; It is so: It is not so.
BEN FRANKLIN
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or
resolution enough to man them!
BEN FRANKLIN
He that can compose himself is wiser than he that composes books.
BEN FRANKLIN
The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.
BEN FRANKLIN
Well done is better than well said.
BEN FRANKLIN
Who has deceiv'd thee so oft as thyself?
BEN FRANKLIN
With the old Almanac and the old Year, leave thy old Vices, tho' ever so dear.
BEN FRANKLIN
"Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more
'user-friendly'.... Their best approach, so far, has been to take all
the old brochures, and stamp the words, 'user- friendly' on the cover."
Bill Gates,Pres.,Microsoft,Inc. -
Eight Things your computer won't do:
1) It won't save you money
2) It won't make your organization run right
3) It won't solve every problem
4) It won't run itself
5) It won't always be right
6) It won't meet all its own needs
7) It won't protect itself
8) It won't become obsolete
J. Makower -
Bradley's Bromide:
If computers get too powerful,we can organize them into a committee...
that will do them in.
We must all hang together, or we will surely all hang separately!
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
To err is human, to compute divine.
Trust your computer but not its programmer.
MORRIS KINGSTON
I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen
more of them who were paralyzed in the head.
GEORGE WALLACE
You don't have to explain something you never said.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
BISMARCK
A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it adds up to real money.
EVERETT DIRKSEN
I like a man who grins when he Fights.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
"There are a lot of lies going around.... and half of them are true."
WINSTON CHURCHILL
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick
himself up and carry on...
WINSTON CHURCHILL
God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday,
and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
WILLIAM BRAGG
That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.
THOREAU
Life is not one thing after another....it's the same damn thing over and over!
After all is said and done, a lot more has been said than done.
Beauty is only skin deep, but Ugly goes straight to the bone.
I really hate this damn machine, I wish that I could sell it.
It never does just what I want, But only what I tell it.
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall
instead of using it.
GORDON R. DICKSON
We have met the enemy and he is us
WALT KELLY (in POGO)
We're the Phone Company..... We don't care. We don't have to.
LILY TOMLIN
The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception a neccessity.
OSCAR WILDE
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
VOLTAIRE
There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.
HEISENBERG
Confound these ancestors.... They've stolen our best ideas!
BEN JONSON
All good qualities get hidden, by surrounding oneself with groups of fools
who act like animals, as the sun is hidden by the clouds.
CHANAKYA PANDIT (350-275 B.C)
Boss - "You are twenty minutes late again. Don't you know what time we
start work at this office?"
New Employee - "No, sir, they're always at it when I get here."
Absent minded Professor (to Pharmacist):
"Give me some prepared monacetic-acidester of salicyllic acid."
Pharmacist: "Do you mean aspirin?"
Absent-minded Professor: "That's right! I can never think of that name."
"In my search for the secret of life, I ended up with atoms and electrons,
which have no life at all. Somewhere along the line, life has run out
through my fingers. So, in my old age I am now retracing my steps..."
ALBERT SZENT-GYORGYI
1937 Nobel Laureate, Physiology and Medicine
We can admittedly find nothing in physics or chemistry that has even a
remote bearing on consciousness. Yet all of us know that there is such
a thing as consciousness simply because we have it ourselves.
Hence consciousness must be part of nature, or, more generally, of
reality, which means that quite apart from the laws of physics and chemistry,
as laid down in quantum theory, we must also consider laws of quite a
different kind.
NIELS BOHR 1922 NOBEL LAUREATE,PHYSICS.
It seems to me pretty plain that there is a third thing in the universe,
to wit, consciousness, which... I cannot see to be matter or force,
or any conceivable modification of either..."
THOMAS H. HUXLEY Biologist and Humanist
Behind every great man is a great woman. Behind every great woman is a great
BEHIND!!!!!!!!