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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Foxrock "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer 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 Foxrock
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Foxrock We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Foxrock
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Foxrock Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Foxrock
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Foxrock In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Foxrock
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley 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 They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Foxrock In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Foxrock
Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Foxrock Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Foxrock
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb 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" An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Foxrock Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Foxrock
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Foxrock blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Foxrock
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Foxrock "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Foxrock
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) 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 To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Foxrock As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Foxrock
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Foxrock "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, ignorance, g "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) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Foxrock
