To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Blakestown "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Blakestown
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Blakestown The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Blakestown
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Blakestown Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Blakestown
A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Blakestown Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Blakestown
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Blakestown "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Anyway, 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,
ign The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Blakestown
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Blakestown I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Blakestown
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Blakestown Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Blakestown
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Blakestown Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Blakestown
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Blakestown Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Blakestown
"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 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 blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Blakestown "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Blakestown
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 university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Blakestown "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Blakestown
