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Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman What's new? Most of my wife. Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Self Catering "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Self Catering
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Self Catering I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Self Catering
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Self Catering blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Self Catering
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Self Catering Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 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 To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Self Catering "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Self Catering
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Self Catering Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Self Catering
My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Self Catering "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Self Catering
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Self Catering A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Self Catering
A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Self Catering Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co 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 There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Self Catering To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Self Catering
"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Self Catering In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Self Catering
