English Circle Hamm - Conversation club for those who want to practice their English, enjoy reading and talking about topics and events related to the English-speaking world.
All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Hamm All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Hamm
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Hamm I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Hamm
The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Hamm Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Hamm
In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Hamm The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Hamm
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Hamm Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Hamm
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Hamm An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Hamm
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Hamm The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Hamm
"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Hamm Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Hamm
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Hamm Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Hamm
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Hamm "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Hamm
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Hamm "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hamm
