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What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Heves County If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Heves County
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Heves County "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Heves County
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers 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 My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Heves County To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Heves County
We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Heves County "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Heves County
"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Heves County If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Heves County
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Heves County "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Heves County
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Heves County But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Heves County
Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Heves County What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Heves County
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Heves County Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas 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 Heves County
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Heves County My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Heves County
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Heves County He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Heves County
