"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Self Catering Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Self Catering
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Self Catering The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Self Catering
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Self Catering Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Self Catering
"We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Self Catering If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Self Catering
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Self Catering Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Self Catering Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Self Catering
"Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Self Catering Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Self Catering
"The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Self Catering If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer May you never leave your marriage alive. Self Catering
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Self Catering Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Self Catering
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Self Catering Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Self Catering
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Self Catering "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Self Catering
