You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Self Catering Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Self Catering
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Self Catering More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Self Catering
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Self Catering A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Self Catering
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Self Catering An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Self Catering
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Self Catering Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Self Catering
All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Self Catering Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Self Catering
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Self Catering Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Self Catering
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Self Catering The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Self Catering
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Self Catering He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Self Catering
All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Self Catering "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Self Catering
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Self Catering When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Self Catering
