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This is a page of quotes. Some by Gary and others he wishes he had said or will never forget.

Gary Lavergne on a former boss who wore too much make-up and perfume...

“Every time she walked into a room flies fell dead to the floor..."

Gary Lavergne on attending meetings...

“I'd rather pull out my teeth, one at a time, with tweezers..."

Henry David Thoreau, when informed that a telegraph now enabled Maine to communicate instantaneously with Texas...

“[But] Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing to communicate.”

Wilson Carey McWilliams, Rutgers University Professor of Political Science and Gary's former teacher, on technology...

“Technology and skill create a demand for their own use, and can easily define rather than serve human purposes.”

Mark Twain on exercise...

"I take my only exercise acting as pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly."

Patrick Deneen and Joseph Romance in Friends and Citizens...

“Technology... affords the illusion of progress and advancement that in turn contributes to dangerous confidence... the potential for human cruelty always remains, but that the absence of the restraints of older institutions and the ease of technology magnify the results of that cruelty.”

Wilson Carey McWilliams on civility...

“Civility does not require that I adopt your manners, your creed, or your costume. It does require the empathic effort to understand you and your ways as you understand them yourself. Civility, like equality, is the sameness of spirit that does not require us to deny our differences. In fact, when civility is strongest, we can argue with some heat... only diplomats are always polite; a political society requires some heat."

V. Shelby Stanfield, Registrar of The University of Texas, on stupidity...

"It is better to be ignorant than stupid because you can do something about ignorance. But if you are stupid you better be likeable."

Ernest Hemingway on Writing...

"The first draft of anything is shit."

Nolan Lavergne, Gary's dad and the Chief of Police of Church Point, Louisiana, exerting discipline...

"Boy, you better straighten up before I take out your eyes and look at your brain to see what's wrong with you."

Bruce Walker, Vice Provost of The University of Texas, on when to stay quiet during a meeting...

"Now, Gary, this is not that important. Don't make yourself famous over this."

Nolan Lavergne's advice to his first-time, freshman son leaving for college...

"Boy, there are a lot of girls over there who'll do almost anything you ask them to do and you gonna have a lot of fun. But when it comes time to get married be sure to pick a girl who says her rosary."

The wisdom of Michael Corleone...

"Don't hate your enemies: It affects your judgment."

The only thing ANYONE ever said to Gary Lavergne that left him speechless...

"You know, Gary, when you're on parole and you been on Death Row, it's hard to find a date." Kenneth Allen McDuff, Serial Killer, September 7, 1996 from a cage on Death Row.

Gary Lavergne describing an annoying cyber-stalker...

"He's like herpes--he's forever."

Kinky Friedman on golf...

"The only good balls I ever hit was when I stepped on a rake."